Isle of Man Watercolour by John Miller Nicholson

This is a wonderful watercolour by John Miller Nicholson, Isle of Man Harbour scene, signed and dated 1910. A beautiful example, with fine attention to colour, light and shade, culminating in this stunning impressionist watercolour by this highly sought after artist. This stunning watercolour has been professionally cleaned, reframed and is now ready to be displayed and admired for many years to come. ‘Manx National Heritage holds the largest collection of artwork by one of the Isle of Man’s most important artists, John Miller Nicholson. He was considered by his contemporaries and later generations to have been the ‘Manx National Artist’ and ‘one of Manxland’s most gifted sons’. Nicholson’s work was frequently compared to that of Turner, one of Britain’s greatest artists, and was also greatly admired by John Ruskin, the leading Victorian art critic. Archibald Knox, following Nicholson’s death in 1913, show the high esteem in which Nicholson was held by his contemporaries: '…the success he achieved in dealing with colour… accurate in drawing and in the weights of colour; full of a knowledge of light… His skill with pigments was perfect; no modern painter has it in an equal degree… So who was John Miller Nicholson? Nicholson was a man of many talents – he was a painter and decorator, an artist, a graphic designer, an illustrator, a photographer, a musician but also a family man and a man of faith’.