Description
Nixon was a wealthy Irish merchant based in London and a talented amateur artist and actor as well as being the Secretary of the Beefsteak Club. Later his successful business enabled him to buy an estate at Uphall on the river Roding at Ilford, Essex. As an artist, he became well known for his caricatures of Georgian life and exhibited thirty-nine pictures at the Royal Academy between 1781 and 1815. He travelled extensively in Ireland, Scotland, Paris and the Netherlands as well as England, sometimes in the company of his friend the caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson (see nos. 36 and 37), whose style he assimilated.
A study of figures taken at the King’s Auction Room, King St., Covent Garden, was with Guy Peppiatt Fine Art in 2020 (see Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, British Portrait and Figure Drawings, exhibition catalogue, 2020, no.40).
Descriptive Medium
Pen and grey ink and watercolour
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art
Location
King Street, Covent Garden, London, England
Country
England
Tags
Category
People & Society
TWW Comment
No. 8 King Street: Christie's (https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols29-30/pt1/pp295-307)
