Noel Laura Nisbet R.I. (1887 – 1956)
“Through the Fair”
Pencil drawing on paper. 11 7/8” x 8 ˝” (301 x 215mm)
Provenance: From the Artist’s Studio
Collection.
The Studio of Harry Bush and Noel Laura
Nisbet. Christies Sept 1984.
Bears studio stamp on reverse of picture. IMAGE
Noel Laura Nisbet was a figure, landscape and flower painter in watercolour and oil.
She was born on the 30th December 1887 at Harrow, the
daughter of Hume Nisbet, author and artist.
She studied art at South Kensington under L.C. Nightingale, winning
three gold medals and the Princess of Wales Scholarship. In 1910 she married the artist Harry
Bush. She illustrated “Russian Fairy
Tales”, “Cossack Fairy Tales” and other works and exhibited her work at the
Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, the Royal
Academy, the Royal Institute (to which she was elected Member in 1926) and the
Royal Institute of Oil Painters. She
lived in London and later at Newbury in Berkshire. Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum and
Newport Museum and Art Gallery hold her work.
The Artist’s studio collection was sold in 1984.