Cecilia Margaret Nairn
Cecilia Margaret Nairn | |
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| Born | Cecilia Margaret Campbell 1791 |
| Died | 4 June 1857 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Known for | wax sculptor, painter |
Cecilia Margaret NairnnéeCecilia Margaret Campbell(1791 – 4 June 1857) was anIrishwax modellerandpainter.[1][2]She specialised in landscape watercolour paintings and modelling flowers.[3][4]Nairn's paintings were exhibited at theRoyal Hibernian Academyfrom 1826 to 1851.[5]
Career[edit]
She was a pupil of her fatherJohn Henry Campbell,himself a painter.[6]At the age of eighteen, she began to showcase her work through various exhibits. In 1809, she sent her work to the exhibition on Hawkins Street in Dublin to be viewed; she continually contributed to this exhibit until 1821. After this time, she sporadically contributed her work to the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1826 to 1847 in the towns of Killarney and Wicklow.[4][7]TheUlster Museumhold a number of her watercolours.[8]
Life and death[edit]
Nairn was born in Dublin in 1791.[8]She had two brothers, John and Charles.[9]John lived in Belfast and was a designer of damask and linen patterns, and Charles was an army officer. She married IrishhorsepainterGeorge Nairn(1799 – 25 January 1850). Both their daughter,Anna Langley Nairn(fl.1844 – 1848, later Armstrong),[6][1][10]and their son,John Campbell Nairn,became artists.[9]After George died from a long and painful illness on 25 January 1850, her death quickly followed; she died in Oak House, Battersea, on 4 June 1850 at the age of 65.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ab"ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)".getty.edu.Retrieved13 December2021.
- ^Nairn, Cecilia Margaret.Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 31 October 2011.doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00128539.Archived fromthe originalon 5 July 2018.Retrieved5 July2018.
- ^"Cecilia Margaret Campbell (Irish, 1791–1857)".artnet.Archivedfrom the original on 5 July 2018.Retrieved13 December2021.
- ^abcStrickland, Walter (2012), "HERALD-PAINTERS",A Dictionary of Irish Artists,Cambridge University Press, pp. 569–576,doi:10.1017/cbo9781139382113.016,ISBN9781139382113
- ^Gray, Sara (2009). "O".The Dictionary of British Women Artists.Casemate.ISBN978-0718830847.(listed as "O'Connor, Cecilia Margaret", father: "J.A. O'Connor" )
- ^abNational Gallery of Ireland,ed. (1987).Irish Women Artists: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day.National Gallery of Ireland.p. 178.ISBN0903162407.
- ^"NEAR GLENTIES, COUNTY DONEGAL, 1850 (A PAIR) by Cecilia Margaret Nairn (1791-1857) (1791-1857) at Whyte's Auctions | Whyte's - Irish Art & Collectibles".Whyte's.Retrieved26 April2019.
- ^abButler, Patricia (1997).Three hundred years of Irish watercolours and drawings.London: Phoenix Illustrated. pp. 65–66.ISBN0-7538-0206-6.OCLC39489326.
- ^abClarke, Frances (2009)."Cecilia Margaret CampbellinCampbell, John Henry ".Dictionary of Irish Biography.Archivedfrom the original on 13 December 2021.Retrieved13 December2021.
- ^Crookshank, Anne;FitzGerald, Desmond(1995).Irish watercolors and drawings: works on paper c. 1600-1914.Abrams.pp. 91, 299, 308.ISBN0810934663.
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