THE HON. ERSKINE NICOL, A.R.A.
Born 1825.
 From a Pencil Sketch by Peter Clelland. |
 From a Photo. by Fradelle & Marshall. |
 From a Photo. by J. G. Tunny, Edinburgh. |
 From a Water Colour Drawing by Himself. |
HE HON. ERSKINE NICOL, A.R.A., was born at Leith, Scotland, in 1825, and received his art education in the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh, under Sir William Allan and Mr. Thomas Duncan. In 1846 he went to reside in Ireland, where he remained three or four years. It was this residence in the sister isle which decided the painter's choice of his peculiar field of representation, for most of his subsequent pictures have been Irish in subject. From Ireland he returned to Edinburgh, and after exhibiting for some time, he was ultimately elected a member of the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1862 he settled in London, and after that date contributed regularly to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy, of which body he was elected an Associate in June, 1866.
