Cecilia Margaret Nairn née Cecilia Margaret Campbell (1791 – 4 June 1857) was an Irish wax modeller and painter.[1][2] She specialised in landscape watercolour paintings and modelling flowers.[3][4] Nairn's paintings were exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1826 to 1851.[5]
Cecilia Margaret Nairn | |
|---|---|
| Born | Cecilia Margaret Campbell 1791 |
| Died | 4 June 1857 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Known for | wax sculptor, painter |
Career
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She was a pupil of her father John 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] The Ulster Museum hold a number of her watercolours.[8]
Life and death
editNairn 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 Irish horse painter George 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- ^ a b "ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Nairn, Cecilia Margaret. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 31 October 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00128539. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ "Cecilia Margaret Campbell (Irish, 1791–1857)". www.artnet.com. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ a b c Strickland, Walter (2012), "HERALD-PAINTERS", A Dictionary of Irish Artists, Cambridge University Press, pp. 569–576, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139382113.016, ISBN 9781139382113
- ^ Gray, Sara (2009). "O". The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Casemate. ISBN 978-0718830847. (listed as "O'Connor, Cecilia Margaret", father: "J.A. O'Connor")
- ^ a b National Gallery of Ireland, ed. (1987). Irish Women Artists: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. National Gallery of Ireland. p. 178. ISBN 0903162407.
- ^ "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. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
- ^ a b Butler, Patricia (1997). Three hundred years of Irish watercolours and drawings. London: Phoenix Illustrated. pp. 65–66. ISBN 0-7538-0206-6. OCLC 39489326.
- ^ a b Clarke, Frances (2009). "Cecilia Margaret Campbell in Campbell, John Henry". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Crookshank, Anne; FitzGerald, Desmond (1995). Irish watercolors and drawings: works on paper c. 1600-1914. Abrams. pp. 91, 299, 308. ISBN 0810934663.
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