NELSON
DAWSON N.E.A., R.B.A., R.E., A.R.W.S. (1859 – 1941)
“Entrance to Scarborough Harbour”
Etching with additional pencil – working proof. Signed & marked “WP”.
Plate size untrimmed 9 ¾” x 11 7/8” (248 x 302mm). IMAGE
Nelson Dawson was
a coastal and landscape painter, metalworker and etcher. He collaborated with his wife Edith Brearey
in metalwork. He was born in
Lincolnshire and although he lived in London he painted subjects mainly on the
east coast in Yorkshire and East Anglia and also on the Cornish coast. He
exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists (to which
he was elected Member in 1890), the Royal Society of Painter Etchers and
Engravers (to which he was elected Member in 1915), the Royal Institute, the
Alpine Club Gallery, the Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, Colnaghi and Co.
Galleries, Chenil Galleries, Dowdeswell Gallery, the Fine Art Society, the
Grosvenor Gallery, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Goupil Gallery, the
International Society, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Leicester Gallery, the
London Salon, Manchester City Art Gallery, the New English Art Club (to which
he was elected Member in 1887), the New Gallery, Ridley Art Club, the Royal
Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours and
the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours (to which he was elected
Associate Member in 1921). Examples of work by Nelson Dawson are in the City
Art Gallery, Bristol. He died on 28th October 1941.
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