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Last Name Nicholl

Given Name Andrew

alt. Names A. N. ;

Marriage

Children Mary Anne Nicholl

Year born 1804 in Belfast, Antrim, Ireland

Year died 1886 / 1866

Place of death Camberwell, London

Father's occupation bootmaker shoemaker Henry Nicholl

Relatives painter ships chandler & flax merchant William Nicholl (1794-1840) (brother) ; merchant James Nicholl (brother)

Education drawing painting from brother William ; apprentice to printer Francis Dalzell Finlay

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for James Emerson Tennent (1804-1869): Ceylon, Physical Historical and Topgraphical (1859) ; James Lawson Drummond ;

Patronage Queen Victoria; founding member of Belfast Association of Artists; Royal Hibernian Academy; Belfast Natural History Society

Collaborators engraver Robert Templeton ; printer Francis Dalzell Finlay ; engraver ->John Harris ; engraver -> S. G. Hughes: http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000190271 ;

Techniques botanical wood engraving, watercolour, and drawing , printing and typography ;

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RuinsBrazenPalace.jpg ;

Archival sources Ulster Museum, National Museum Colombo, Sri Lanka ; www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/belfast/andrew_nicholl.shtml ;

Published sources AKL ; ThB 25 1931 ; Klingender 1968/74: 132 ; Simon Houfe: Dict Brit Illust: 1981: 400 ; Martyn Anglesea: A. N. & his Patrons in Ireland and Ceylon, in: Studies Irish Quarterly Rev 71, 282 (1982) ; Butler 2000: chapter 3 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 4094 ;

other Further Places of Activity: Ireland and Sri Lanka. compositor; Dublin; teacher of landscape drawing, painting, design at Colombo Academy; 1846 to Ceylon for Tennent; 1830 in London.

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