Archibald Nicoll

Archibald Frank Nicoll OBE (14 June 1886 – 1 February 1953) was a New Zealand artist and art teacher.

[3] In 1907 he resigned from the Union Steamship Company and was appointed to a teaching position at Elam School of Art and Design in Auckland.

He exhibited at the Canterbury Society of Arts in September of that year and in October he also presented a one-man show with over 200 of his works.

With the birth of his son in 1933 he decided to return to teaching and rejoined the staff of the Canterbury College School of Art in 1934.

[2] In the 1947 King's Birthday Honours, Nicoll was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to art.