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Watercolour, 51 x 41cm (20 x 16”)
Signed
Frank Nowlan was born in or near Dublin in about 1835.
He appears to have settled in London in 1857 and to
have studied at Leigh’s School of Art and the Langham
School of Art. He was recorded as a miniature painter,
age 24, lodging at 49 Warren St in the 1861 census and
as an artist in subsequent censuses. He married Susanna
Haxley in 1861 at St Pancras Old Church. In the 1871
census they were living at 187 Euston Road and in 1881
at the Elms, London Road, Cheam, his age given as 43,
with three daughters. One of his daughters, Carlotta,
exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1894-1900. He appears
as an artist painter, with his wife Susanna, as having
been married 49 years, still living at the Elms, in the 1911
census. He died in 1919 at the age of 84 in the Epsom
district, leaving effects worth £449. Several of his works
were included in a posthumous sale held at Forster’s on
23 July 1919 (The Times 21 July 1919).
Nowlan exhibited in various exhibitions in London and
RHA Dublin from 1866 to 1916. He was patronised by
the Royal Family and he is also said to have invented the
unforgeable cheque.
€1,000 - 1,500