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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

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Display artist/maker:

Erskine Nicol

Born: 1825   Died: 1904

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Nicol was a Scottish genre painter, born in 1825. He started his career as a decorator and then turned to art. He was a student at the Trustees’ Academy and then taught for a while as an Art Master at Leith Academy. He taught in Dublin, Ireland, from 1845-50 at the height of the Irish famine. There, much of his work was about the injustices inflicted upon the Irish population at the time. In 1850, he moved to Edinburgh. In 1851, he was made and Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy and in 1859 an Academician. He exhibited at the Ryal Academy. In 1862 he moved to St John’s Wood in London, then in 1864 moved to West London. He purchased a studio in Ireland and enjoyed finishing canvasses there until ill health prevented him from travelling far. He thereafter used an abandoned church in Pitlochry to complete his works. He died in 1904, aged 78, and was buried next to his second wife in Rottingdean.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

A Visit to the Irish Poor PL3531 Prints1860s



 
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