View of James Emerson Tennent's house in Ceylon

细节

Andrew Nicholl, R.H.A. (1804-1866)
View of James Emerson Tennent's house in Ceylon
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour
8 5/8 x 12¼ in. (22 x 31 cm.)

来源

Sir James Emerson Tennant and by descent in the family until purchased by the present owner.

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拍品专文

Born in Belfast, Nicholl exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1832, becoming an Associate in 1837 and a full member in 1860. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1832 to 1854 and went to live in London in 1840. In August 1846 he was sent by the Government to Ceylon as a teacher of drawing and painting at the Colombo Academy and appears to have spent about five years in Ceylon. He went out by the Suez route and returned by the Cape route, since drawings of Mount Sinai and St Helena are from his hand. On his return he lived successively in London, Dublin and Belfast, where he taught landscape drawing.

Sir James Emerson Tennent (1804-69) was Colonial Secretary in Ceylon from 1845, and was like Nicholl a Belfast man. He was leader of the legislative council and chief officer of the executive.