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Edward Nichols

Edward Willard Nichols (1819 - 1871) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire.  Edward Nichols is known for Panoramic New England landscape and portrait painting.

Edward Nichols, born and raised in Oxford, New Hampshire on the Connecticut River, first studied as a lawyer, but by the age of 30 had abandoned that career to study art at the Academy of Design* under the Hudson River School* artist and architect, Jasper Cropsey.   Nichols "had come to believe that art---encompassing not just painting, but also furnishings, architecture, and landscape---had the power to shape and improve people and society."

He married Maria Wilkinson from a highly cultured, prosperous family.  Her father, Edward Watkinson, was a successful Hartford, Connecticut merchant and iron trader, and her mother, Lavina Hudson, owned the well-known Hartford newspaper, Courant.  Maria was quite worldly for her era, having been a volunteer teacher in missionary schools in Beirut and Constantinople.  Marrying into this family, Edward Nichols not only gained a highly cultured companion but likely gained the financial support he needed to fulfill h   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4680 characters.]  Artist bio

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