Name: Andrew Nicholl, R.H.A. (Belfast 1804-1866 London)
Brand: View across Vico Bay towards Bray Head, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Price: 1000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Andrew Nicholl, R.H.A. (Belfast 1804-1866 London)
View across Vico Bay towards Bray Head, Co. Dublin, Ireland
signed 'A Nicholl RHA' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out on paper
13 x 19¹⁄₄ in. (33 x 48.9 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 May 1996, lot 407, where purchased for the present collection.

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Nicholl was born in Belfast, the son of a shoemaker and was apprenticed to a printer. In his twenties he acquired a wealthy patron, the politician and writer Sir James Emerson Tennent (1804-1869) who financed a two year stay in London from 1830 to 1832. Nicholl spent time copying Old Masters at the Dulwich Picture Gallery where his favourite artists were Cuyp, De Wint and Copley Fielding. J.M.W. Turner was also a major influence throughout his career. Nicholl returned to Ireland and spent time in Dublin exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy, becoming an Associate in 1837 and a full member in 1860.