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Last Name Nicholson

Given Name Francis

alt. Names F. N. ;

Marriage

Children artist, poet, and author Marianne Croker (daughter), she married Thomas Crofton Croker ; Alfred Nicholson (1788-1833) (son)

Year born 1753 in Pickering, North Yorkshire

Year died 1844

Place of death London

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education studied with a local artist in Scarborough, before beginning his career in his native Pickering

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for F. N.: Lithographic Impressions of Sketches from Nature (1821) ; The practice of drawing & painting landscape from nature, in water colours (1820) ; Exemplified in a series of instructions, with observations on the study of nature & various other matters relative to the arts (1823) ;

Patronage exhibits at Royal Academy since 1789; supplied topogr. views for the Copper Plate Magazine; founder-member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours

Collaborators

Techniques technical and topographical painting, etching, and lithography ;

Sample(s) www.1st-art-gallery.com/Francis-Nicholson/London-Bridge-And-The-Monument-1795.html ;

Archival sources https://archive.org/details/gri_33125011900046 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Nicholson_%28painter%29 ;

Published sources Albert Nicholson in DNB 41 1895 ; Klingender 1968/74: 257 & figure 58 ; Francis Nicholson, painter & lithographer (1924) ; Lithographs and engravings of Georgian Britain ;

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