Erskine Nicol

Erskine Nicol RSA ARA (3 July 1825 – 1904) was a Scottish figure and genre painter.

He was born in Leith on 3 July 1825[1] the eldest son of James Main Nicol and his wife Margaret Alexander.

[2] His father rented a property on Lochend Road and worked in a wine merchant (Wauchope & Moodie) at 133 Constitution Street.

He was a student at the Trustees' Academy on Picardy Place in Edinburgh, where he studied with Sir William Allan, and Thomas Duncan.

He also purchased a studio in Clonava in County Westmeath in Ireland and enjoyed finishing canvases there until ill-health forced him to curtail his travelling.

A Nip Against the Cold, 1869 - Oil on canvasboard 20 x 25 in. / 51 x 64 cm.
Erskine Nicol (1825-1904) - An Irish Emigrant Landing at Liverpool (Jim Blake Landing in Liverpool)
(An Ejected Family)-Irish folk evicted relating to the Irish famine.
An Irish Countryman by Erskine Nicol
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