Job Nixon
English painter and engraver
Biography
Job Nixon (1891–1938) was an English painter and engraver.
He was born in 1891 in The Potteries, in Staffordshire.
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.
He was known for his etchings and drypoints, producing over 75. Many of these depicted places in France or Italy.
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.
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Genres
- landscape painting
- figurative art
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- Job Nixon died on July 26, 1938 at the age of 47.
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