"BARNEY YOU'RE SULKING NOW", 1861 Erskine Nicol ARA RSA (1825-1904)
Signature: signed and dated lower right Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 60 by 43cm., 23.5 by 17in. Provenance: Provenance:Sotheby's, Slane Castle, 25 June 1979, lot 477 (illustrated p.148); Private collection Although he did not live in Ireland permanently after 1850, Erskine Nicol did return regularly. He was made an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1855 and an Academician in 1859. From 1847 to ... 1856 he exhibited fourteen works at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin showing mostly portraits. During these years the addresses provided by the artist were D’Olier, Fleet and Lower Sackville Street, Dublin. In 1862 he relocated to London, becoming an associate member of the Royal Academy in 1868. In 1885 he retired from the Royal Academy, and went to Scotland before finally settling in Feltham, Middlesex. His work demonstrates a genuine and candid engagement with his subject. Works such as An Ejected Family, 1854, and the recently acquired, The 16th, 17th (St. Patrick's Day) and 18th March, 1856, in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland are testament to this sincerity and reinforce the artist’s importance within Irish art more
"BARNEY YOU'RE SULKING NOW", 1861 Erskine Nicol ARA RSA (1825-1904)
Signature: signed and dated lower right Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 60 by 43cm., 23.5 by 17in. Provenance: Provenance:Sotheby's, Slane Castle, 25 June 1979, lot 477 (illustrated p.148); Private collection Although he did not live in Ireland permanently after 1850, Erskine Nicol did return regularly. He was made an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1855 and an Academician in 1859. From 1847 to ... 1856 he exhibited fourteen works at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin showing mostly portraits. During these years the addresses provided by the artist were D’Olier, Fleet and Lower Sackville Street, Dublin. In 1862 he relocated to London, becoming an associate member of the Royal Academy in 1868. In 1885 he retired from the Royal Academy, and went to Scotland before finally settling in Feltham, Middlesex. His work demonstrates a genuine and candid engagement with his subject. Works such as An Ejected Family, 1854, and the recently acquired, The 16th, 17th (St. Patrick's Day) and 18th March, 1856, in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland are testament to this sincerity and reinforce the artist’s importance within Irish art more
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