July 2020

HOBART TOWN ART EXHIBITIONS 1845 & 1858
See also [catalogue commentary] [Anna-Maria Nixon commentary]

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Rev. Dr. Francis Russell Nixon, first Bishop of Tasmania.

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A painter, sketcher, photographer and Anglican Bishop. Being consecrated the first bishop of Tasmania, Nixon used his sketches and paintings as a way to document his time spent in Tasmania.

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... painter, photographer and Anglican bishop, was born in Foots Cray, Kent, on 1 August 1803, second son of Rev. Robert Nixon. His father was a competent watercolour painter who exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1808 (as an honorary exhibitor) and collaborated with his brother John Nixon, the caricaturist, to illustrate a book on the seats of the nobility and gentry of England.

Nixon senior had encouraged J.M.W. Turner very early in his career, and later Turner would visit his 'good friend Mr Nixon and accompany him on sketching trips’.

A view of Mount Snowdon in Wales, said by Francis Nixon to have been painted at his father’s parsonage as Turner’s first attempt at oil painting, accompanied Nixon junior to the antipodes. He lent this to art exhibitions at Hobart Town in 1845 and 1858 together with lesser works by Turner (and other English artists) and paintings both by himself and his father.

Educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School in London (on which he published a history in 1823, illustrated with five lithographic views after his own sketches) and at St John’s College, Oxford, Francis Nixon was ordained and appointed chaplain to the British Embassy at Naples. Here his wife, Frances Maria, nee Streatfield, died in 1834, having borne three children. On his return to England in 1836 Nixon was given the parish of Sandgate and, in 1838, the living of Ash, near Wingham, Kent. He had previously been appointed one of the 'six preachers’ of Canterbury ... •

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...1843 To Van Diemen's Land via Cape Town on board 'Duke of Roxburgh'.

Flourished• fl. c.1823 - c.1860

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