Erskine Nicol

Erskine Nicol
Born (1825-07-03)3 July 1825
Died 8 March 1904(1904-03-08) (aged 78)
Nationality Scottish
Education William Allan
Known for oil painting

Erskine Nicol (3 July 1825 – 1904) was a Scottish painter.

Career

He was born in Leith on 3 July 1825. [1]

He was a student at the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh. He studied with Sir William Allan, and Thomas Duncan.[1]

A Nip Against the Cold, 1869 - Oil on canvasboard 20 x 25 in. / 51 x 64 cm

Nicol taught in Dublin, Ireland, from 1845–50, at the height of the Irish famine, and identified with the oppression of the Irish people and much of his work portrays the injustices inflicted upon the Irish population during the 19th century.[2]

In 1850, he moved to Edinburgh. He was made an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1851 and an Academician in 1859. [1]

Nicol exhibited at the Royal Academy and was made an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1866. He also exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy and the British Institution. In 1905 the Royal Scottish Academy held a commemorative exhibition.

He died at The Dell, Feltham, on 8 March 1904.[1]

Family

Nicol was twice married: first in 1851 to Janet Watson, who died in 1863, leaving a son (Mr. John Watson Nicol, a painter) and a daughter; second in 1865 to Margaret Mary Wood, who survived him, and by whom he had two sons (the elder, Mr. Erskine Edwin Nicol, a painter) and a daughter. [1]

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