Cecilia Margaret Nairn

Cecilia Margaret Nairn
Born Cecilia Margaret Campbell
1791
Died 4 June 1857
Nationality Irish
Known for wax sculptor, painter

Cecilia Margaret Nairn née Cecilia Margaret Campbell (1791 — 4 June 1857) was an Irish wax modeller and painter.[1][2] She specialised in landscape watercolor paintings.[3][4]

She was a pupil of her father John Henry Campbell (1757–1829), himself a painter.[5] She married Irish horse painter George Nairn (1799 — 25 January 1850), and their daughter was Anna Langley Nairn (1844–1848), also a painter.[5][1][6]

Nairn's paintings were exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1826 to 1851.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 ULAN Index - Cecilia Margaret Nairn
  2. ↑ oxfordindex-Cecilia Margaret Nairn
  3. ↑ Clara Index - Cecilia Margaret Nairn
  4. ↑ Artnet - Cecilia Margaret Campbell
  5. 1 2 National Gallery of Ireland (ed.). Irish Women Artists: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. National Gallery of Ireland. p. 178. ISBN 0903162407.
  6. ↑ Crookshank, Anne; FitzGerald, Desmond (1995). Irish watercolors and drawings: works on paper c. 1600-1914. Abrams. pp. 91, 299, 308. ISBN 0810934663.
  7. ↑ Gray, Sara (2009). "O". The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Casemate. ISBN 0718830849. (listed as "O'Connor, Cecilia Margaret", father: "J.A. O'Connor")
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