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1832 Salem County, New Jersey - 1912 Hammonton, New Jersey. Known for: Landscape, genre, marine, history paintings.
The following is written and submitted by Kate Nearpass Ogden, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. The landscape painter George Washington Nicholson was born near Salem, New Jersey in 1832.... Read full biography
The following is written and submitted by Kate Nearpass Ogden, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. The landscape painter George Washington Nicholson was born near Salem, New Jersey in 1832. As a boy Nicholson lived in Mannington Township. By the age of 17 he was apprenticed to a house... Read full biography
The following is written and submitted by Kate Nearpass Ogden, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. The landscape painter George Washington Nicholson was born near Salem, New Jersey in 1832. As a boy Nicholson lived in Mannington Township. By the age of 17 he was apprenticed to a house painter named Daniel Woodruff in Salem. According to family tradition, he was encouraged in his artistic pursuits by his oldest sister, Rachel, and probably began painting in the 1850s. Nicholson moved to... Read full biography
The following is written and submitted by Kate Nearpass Ogden, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. The landscape painter George Washington Nicholson was born near Salem, New Jersey in 1832. As a boy Nicholson lived in Mannington Township. By the age of 17 he was apprenticed to a house painter named Daniel Woodruff in Salem. According to family tradition, he was encouraged in his artistic pursuits by his oldest sister, Rachel, and probably began painting in the 1850s. Nicholson moved to Philadelphia sometime before 1861, the year he married a young woman named Jane Elizabeth Bray, known as Jennie. He may have met Jennie through her father, Job F. Bray, who had worked as a sign painter in Philadelphia for many years. It seemly likely... Read full biography
The following is written and submitted by Kate Nearpass Ogden, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. The landscape painter George Washington Nicholson was born near Salem, New Jersey in 1832. As a boy Nicholson lived in Mannington Township. By the age of 17 he was apprenticed to a house painter named Daniel Woodruff in Salem. According to family tradition, he was encouraged in his artistic pursuits by his oldest sister, Rachel, and probably began painting in the 1850s. Nicholson moved to Philadelphia sometime before 1861, the year he married a young woman named Jane Elizabeth Bray, known as Jennie. He may have met Jennie through her father, Job F. Bray, who had worked as a sign painter in Philadelphia for many years. It seemly likely that Nicholson worked as Bray's apprentice. Jennie died in 1963 after the birth of George F. Nicholso... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Spanish Missions, California
- •Still Life
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •War Scenes, Military Genre, Figure, Portrait, Battles
- •Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •Brooklyn Art Association
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Genre Specialty
- •Marine Before 1900
- •Miniature Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts