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ID: 500001374
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500001374
 
Record Type: Person
Nicol, Erskine (Scottish painter, 1825-1904)

Note: Known for his comic and tragic paintings, often cabinet-sized, of Irish peasants. Nicol was made an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1855 and an Academician in 1859. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy (being made an ARA in 1866), the Royal Hibernian Academy and the British Institution. In 1905 the Royal Scottish Academy held a commemorative exhibition. Comment on works: genre

Names:
Nicol, Erskine (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Erskine Nicol (V,display)
e. nicol (LU,U)
Nicol (LU,U)
Nicoll (LU,U)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)
Scottish (Scots, Scotsman)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
genre artist

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Leith (Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
Died:  Feltham (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (neighborhood)

Events:
active:   Ireland (Europe) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
parent of ....  Nicol, Erskine E.  
................  (British painter, 1868-1926) [500040630]
parent of ....  Nicol, John Watson  
................  (British painter, 1856-1926) [500028741]
student of ....  Allan, William  
..................  (Scottish painter, 1782-1850) [500028676]
student of ....  Duncan, Thomas  
..................  (British painter, 1807-1845) [500019761]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Nicol, Erskine (I)

Biographies:
(Scottish painter, 1825-1904) ..... [VP Preferred]
(British painter, 1825-1904) ..... [BHA]
(Scottish painter 1825-1904) ..... [GRLPA]
(British painter, 1825-1904) ..... [PROV]
(British artist, 1825-1904) ..... [WCP]
(British artist, 1825-1904) ..... [WCI]
(British artist, 1825-1904) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Scottish painter, 1825-1904) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, born 1825) ..... [GRL]
(British artist, 1825-1904) ..... [PROV]
(Unknown artist) ..... [PROV]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
e. nicol ........ [PROV]
................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Erskine Nicol ........ [GRL, PROV, VP]
............................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
............................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Nicol ........ [PROV]
.............  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Nicol, Erskine ........ [BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, PROV Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..............................  Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
..............................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
..............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..............................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.] NAFR933928
..............................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
..............................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
..............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
..............................  Witt Library, Authority files
Nicoll ........ [PROV]
...............  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, GRLPA, Grove Art, PROV, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: nr93003928
....................  Gaunt, W. Restless century: ptg. in Brit. 1800-1900, 1972: p. 232 (Nicol, Erskine; genre painter, studied in Edinburgh with Sir William Allan, active in Ireland and England; b. Leith 1825, d. Feltham, Middlesex 1904)
....................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
....................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 27 May 2004
....................  Johnson, J. Dict. of Brit. artists, 1880-1940, 1980: p. 376 (Nicol, Erskine; father of artists Erskine E. and John Watson Nicol; b. 1825, d. 1904)
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.] NAFR933928
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: nr93003928
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93003928
....................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RLIN data base, 02/01/93 (usage: Erskine Nicol)
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [PROV, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 21 May 2002
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
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