Wp nicholson biography of williams

A man of many talents, Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter, printmaker, illustrator, and theater set designer was born in Newark-on-Trent, England, in 1872.  He attended Magnus Grammar School where he studied under William Cubley, and briefly studied at Hubert von Herkomer's art school from 1888 to 1889.

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He then attended Academie Julian in Paris from 1889 to 1890. There he met James Pryde, with whom he collaborated on various graphic design projects as the "Beggarstaff Brothers".

In 1893 he married Pryde's sister, Mabel, and they moved to Denham. That same year Nicholson began publishing with William Heinemann on the recommendation of James McNeil Whistler, who had seen Nicholson's fledgling woodcut work at the Fine Art Sociey in 1896.

Through Heinemann Nicholson produced, among other celebrated woodcut works, The Alphabet and An Almanac of Twelve Sports. (However, Nicholson's celebrated commemorative woodcut H.M. Victoria was turned William Nicholson - Biography | Jenna Burlingham Gallery DADA