Figures by a wooden Bridge in the Trossachs

Francis Nicholson

DETAILS
  • Artist

    Francis Nicholson

  • Date

    c. 1812

  • Medium

    Watercolour on paper

  • Object number

    709

  • Dimensions unframed

    35.5 × 50 cm

  • Dimensions framed

    62 × 75 × 2.5 cm

  • Marks

    Signed bottom right

  • Subject

    Landscape

ARTIST PROFILE

Francis Nicholson OWS, 1753-1844

Label on back of painting: Born in Pickering, Yorkshire he was a landscape painter and drawing master who for the first thirty years of his life lived in a number of Yorkshire towns. In 1783 he settled in Whitby, Yorkshire for nine years and in 1789 first exhibited at the Royal Academy. Between 1792 and 1803, when he settled in London he continued to move about London and made a visit to the island of Bute with his patron, the marquess of Bute. They toured the other islands and lochs of the Clyde and Nicholson made many sketches which provided him with subjects for some years. He was in Scotland again in 1812, touring the Lowlands (when this picture was probably painted). The Trossachs in Perthshire are one of the most celebrated beauty spots in Scotland. In 1804 he was the senior of the Sixteen Founder Members of the Old Watercolour Society; he resigned from the society in 1813, partly in order to concentrate on his flourishing practice as a drawing master. He exhibited 318 works. Example of his work are in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert museum and numerous regional museums and art galleries throughout England.