Original ANDREW NICHOLL Watercolour

Cattle at a river 30 x 23 cm Andrew Nicholl was born in Belfast and worked as an apprentice to a printer, but showed an interest in painting and drawing from early on. After spending some time in London he returned to Ireland to exhibit at the RHA, and was elected a full member of the Academy in 1860. He moved between Belfast, Dublin and London and for a time taught painting and drawing at the Colombo Academy in Ceylon. As Walter Strickland observed, Andrew Nicholl was devoted to art from his boyhood, and 'won a reputation as a landscape painter in his native town.' He would later be known as the most talented, renowned and prolific topographical Irish artist of the nineteenth century.