Noel Laura Nisbet - Artist Info

About Noel Laura Nisbet

  • Biography

    Noel Laura Nisbet came from an artistic Scottish family. She was the youngest daughter of Hume Nisbet, an artist, author and traveller. Her sister Margaret also became a painter. The family moved to London in 1887 and she won numerous awards while studying at the Clapham School of Art.

    In 1910 she married Harry Bush, a fellow student. Four years later her father set up his artistic daughters in two houses, with purpose-built attic studios, on an estate then being built in Merton Park, south west London. They were to live there for the rest of their lives; Harry Bush was to immortalize their world in his pictures of suburban London.

    Nisbet illustrated five books of fairy tales and ...

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