Job Nixon
When he was eighteen, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. He later studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, and then another scholarship enabled him to attend the British School of Engraving in Rome. • Illustration — Gypsy Encampment (1939, oil on canvas) He was known for his etchings and drypoints, producing over 75. Many of these depicted places in France or Italy.
Job Nixon
Job Nixon · Public domain
- Born
- 1891 · Stoke-on-Trent.
- Died
- 1938 · Mendham.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter · engraver · etcher · watercolorist
- Fields
- landscape · figurative
- Education
- Royal College of Art · Slade School of Fine Art
- Teachers
- Francis Job Short · Henry Tonks
- Languages
- English
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When he was eighteen, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. He later studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, and then another scholarship enabled him to attend the British School of Engraving in Rome. • Illustration — Gypsy Encampment (1939, oil on canvas) He was known for his etchings and drypoints, producing over 75. Many of these depicted places in France or Italy.
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Job Nixon (1891–1938) was an engraver, etcher and painter, among other activities, of British and British nationality. The engraver was born in Stoke-on-Trent and died in Mendham.
Job Nixon was educated at Royal College of Art and Slade School of Fine Art. The engraver was a member of New English Art Club, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and Royal Watercolour Society and worked in France, Italy and United Kingdom.
The work spans figurative, figurative art and landscape, among others. Languages used include English. Works are held at Art Institute of Chicago, Auckland Art Gallery and Manchester Art Gallery, among others.
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He became an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1928 and a member in 1934. His paintings are in a number of public collections, including those of Manchester Art Gallery, the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery the Royal Watercolour Society, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Auckland Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Victoria. He died in 1938. In a review of a 1972 exhibition by fellow Staffordshire-born engraver Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood, Edward Morris wrote: Wedgwood was one of the first pupils to be able to study engraving alone for his diploma [at the RCA] and he profited from the vigorous manner of Job Nixon [1891–1938] rather than from the more refined, delicate approach of the Professor, Sir Frank Short.
Job Nixon studied at Royal College of Art and Slade School of Fine Art. Training under Francis Job Short and Henry Tonks is recorded. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape and figurative. Places of work recorded in the authority are United Kingdom, France and Italy. Work by Job Nixon is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Auckland Art Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery and Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.
Offered for sale by Abbott and Holder in February 2020 when it was described as "‘Gypsy Encampment’. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Job Nixon
Offered for sale by Abbott and Holder in March 2022 (ref: 10507), when it was described as "London; Bank Holiday, Hampstead Heath. Etching. 1929. Signed. 10×14.5 inches.".
Job Nixon
Key facts
Key facts
Job Nixon (1891–1938) was an English painter and engraver. • Illustration — Home Farm – near Plymouth (circa 1930, chalk, ink and watercolour) He was born in 1891 in The Potteries, in Staffordshire.
Career and activity
Career and activity
He belonged to Royal Watercolour Society, New English Art Club and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. He worked at United Kingdom, France and Italy.
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Job Nixon is recorded as painter, engraver, etcher and watercolorist.
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1891
Job Nixon born at Stoke-on-Trent.
1938
Job Nixon died at Mendham.
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Stoke-on-Trent.
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Mendham.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q21459794: Job Nixon
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- “Job Nixon”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.ArtUK. Nixon, Job, 1891–1938.
- 2.British Council. Job Nixon.
- 3.Royal Watercolour Society. Members.
- 4.Manchester Art Gallery. Job Nixon b 1891 – d 1938.
- 5.Art Institute of Chicago. Job Nixon. 5 August 1891.
- 6.Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Job Nixon.
- 7.Auckland Art Gallery. Job Nixon.
- 8.National Gallery of Victoria. Job Nixon.
- 9.Morris, Edward. Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood. Connoisseur. 180. 725. 239. July 1972.
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Job Nixon studied at Royal College of Art and Slade School of Fine Art. He trained under Francis Job Short and Henry Tonks.
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