€300
Star Lot: An exquisite antique original Andrew Nicholl (Belfast, b.1804 - d.1886) watercolour on paper painting titled "Shane's Castle" dating to June 1834. Features a landscape scene of the titular castle in county Antrim, rendered in fine delicate brushstrokes in a warm palette of indigo blues and sandy peaches. Hand titled and dated in pencil to base and housed in a high quality antique gilt frame with foliate moulding to corners. John Magee framers sticker to verso. Nicholl is a well renowned 19th century Irish artist with a strong auction history, whose work fetches up to €17,000 at Whyte's.
MM: 46 x 36 cm including frame.
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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. Nicholl worked in London between 1830 and 1832. He was a founder member of the Belfast Association of Artists and exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, and at the Royal Academy, London. Nicholl was elected as an associate member of the RHA in 1847 before becoming a full member in 1860. He would later be known as the most talented, renowned and prolific topographical Irish artist of the nineteenth century. The Ulster Museum holds a large collection of his work, from all periods of his career.
He moved between Belfast, Dublin and London and for a time taught painting and drawing at the Colombo Academy in Ceylon.
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