Erskine Nicol

1825-1904

British/Scottish (Dublin, Ireland; Edinburgh, Scotland; London, England)

Erskine Nicol, was born in 1825 at Leith, where he was educated and placed for a time with a house-painter. In early life he was appointed teacher of drawing in Leith High School, and later was for about four years Art Teacher under the Science and Art Department in Dublin. In 1849 he returned from Dublin to Edinburgh, and rapidly came into notice by his able works depicting Irish life and character. He commenced to exhibit in the Royal Scottish Academy in 1842, and thereafter became a liberal and almost constant contributor to the Annual Exhibition till 1886. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1855, and in 1868 he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy.