1753 - 1844
Francis Nicholson was a landscape painter born in Pickering and spent most of his life working in his native Yorkshire. In 1803 he moved to London where he taught fashionable young men and women to paint, referring his students as 'guinea fowl'. In 1804 he became a founding member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours. He had a long career but was never considered to be a great painter.
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