William Nicholson was a British painter, engraver, lithographer and illustrator noted for his portraits of well known individuals, along with landscapes and still life.
I find his still life paintings particularly appealing. Their subjects, sometimes a bit unusual, are rendered with a painterly touch and an eye to soft contrasts of value and color.
Link:
William Nicholson on Your Paintings (BBC), and here
Tate, and here (paintings and lithographs)
Art Gallery NSW
National gallery Scotland
Still Life Quick Heart
The Athenaeum
Bonhams
Jonathan Clark & Co
Sanders of Oxford (prints)
Birmingham Museums
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Guradian
Wikipedia
ArtCyclopedia, additional links and resources
As one of the Beggarstaffs he was already an interesting artist. Knighted in 1936.
http://beggarstaffs.com/catalogue/
His brother-in-law James Ferrier Pryde, the other Beggarstaff ‘brother’ was a more serious Scottish-born painter. http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/james-pryde/paintings/slideshow#/0
Did he sometimes sign his name:
William Nicholson. date.
I have an uncoloured lithograph thus signed, but am unsure whether it is genuine. The date is illegible: it might be 1928, or any year ending in eight.
Any thoughts, anyone? I love his work.
Clive Simmonds