Frederick Nash
Frederick Nash (1782–1856) was an English painter and draughtsman. • Illustration — Cour d'honneur du Palais Royal, Paris by Frederick Nash, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1829 Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth. He initially studied architectural drawing under Thomas Malton, then later enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts. Between 1801 and 1809 Nash worked with the antiquarians John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley.
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Frederick Nash
Frederick Nash · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1782. · Lambeth.
- Died
- 1856. · Brighton.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Kingdom of Great Britain.
- Fields
- landscape.
- Teachers
- Thomas Malton.
- Languages
- English.
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1782
Frederick Nash was born on 1 January 1782.
1856
Frederick Nash died on 5 December 1856.
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In 1810, he became a member of Society of Painters in Watercolours, an organization whose members had seceded from the Royal Academy over complaints that their work was not being recognized. Nash primarily painted landscapes, and made sketching trips to Calais, Caen, the Moselle river and the Rhine. In 1834 he moved to Brighton where he continued working until his death in 1856.
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Frederick Nash appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names as an engraver, lithographer, watercolourist, draughtsman, painter and printmaker (28 March 1782 – 5 December 1856). Frederick Nash was born on 28 March 1782 in Lambeth, United Kingdom and died on 5 December 1856 in Brighton, United Kingdom.
Training under Thomas Malton is recorded. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are London, Oxford and Netherlands. Work by Frederick Nash is recorded in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery, Tate, Yale Center for British Art and Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.
• Alice Lee, a painting, engraved by Lumb Stocks, for the Forget Me Not annual, 1839, with illustrative verse by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
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Frederick Nash · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
Crests and coats-of-arms of several doctors from a bas-relief in the Beauchamp tower. Etching by J. Pye the younger, 1821, after F. Nash., 28 May 1821, by Frederick Nash
Frederick Nash · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
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