Wild Flowers by a River with Cattle grazing and Mallard in Flight - Sunset
Wild Flowers by a River with Cattle grazing and Mallard in Flight - Sunset
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 Wild Flowers by a River with Cattle grazing and Mallard in Flight - SunsetSigned in red lower left: A. Nicholl R.H.A.Watercolour heightened with bodycolour, stopping out and scratching out48 by 78 cm., 18 ¾ by 30 ¾ in.Provenance: Anonymous sale, Christie's, 26th April 1988, lot 120Nicholl was born in Belfast and apprenticed to a printer before moving to London where he taught himself to paint. He left for Dublin and exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1832. The present watercolour is likely to date from that period when he specialised in views of Ireland seen through a fringe of wild flowers. He returned to London in the late 1830s and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1832 until 1854.){kind=link}
Andrew Nicholl, R.H.A. (1804-1886)
Wild Flowers by a River with Cattle grazing and Mallard in Flight - Sunset
Signed in red lower left: A. Nicholl R.H.A.
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour, stopping out and scratching out
48 by 78 cm., 18 ¾ by 30 ¾ in.
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Christie's, 26th April 1988, lot 120
Nicholl was born in Belfast and apprenticed to a printer before moving to London where he taught himself to paint. He left for Dublin and exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1832. The present watercolour is likely to date from that period when he specialised in views of Ireland seen through a fringe of wild flowers. He returned to London in the late 1830s and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1832 until 1854.