Shipwreck on the Black Rocks, near Scarborough, Yorkshire

Francis Nicholson (1753 - 1844)

Coloured aquatint

published 1825

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    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
  • About the artist
    Francis Nicholson was born in Pickering, Yorkshire, but lived in Whitby, Knaresborough and Ripon, before moving to London in around 1803. After studying under local artists in Yorkshire, he spent some 30 years painting portraits and animals, mainly in oil. However, from the mid-1780 he turned to watercolour, sending his watercolour landscapes to Royal Academy exhibitions from 1789 and supplying topographical views to ‘Copper Plate Magazine’. He experimented with different methods and processes of watercolour painting and published ‘The Practice of Drawing and Painting Landscapes from Nature in Watercolour’ (1820). Nicholson was also a popular teacher. In 1804 he became a founder-member of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours.
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    Artist
    Francis Nicholson (1753 - 1844)
    Title
    Shipwreck on the Black Rocks, near Scarborough, Yorkshire
    Date
    published 1825
    Medium
    Coloured aquatint
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Parker Gallery, November 1965
    GAC number
    7288