Sir William Nicholson
The Brig
About this artwork
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title:The Brig
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accession number:GMA 907
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materials:Oil on canvas-board
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date created:Dated 1906
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measurements:27.70 x 34.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1965
Sir William Nicholson
Sir William Nicholson
William Nicholson was the son of a wealthy Nottinghamshire industrialist. He trained in London at Herkomer's School alongside the Scottish students, Mabel and James Pryde, in 1888-89. After a year in Paris at the Académie Julian, he and James Pryde, as the 'Beggarstaff Brothers', collaborated on well-known series of posters.…