William Grinsell Nicholl

William Grinsell Nicholl (London 17961871) was a British 19th-century architectural and monumental sculptor.

William Grinsell Nicholl
William Grinsell Nicholl, mid 1860s, photographer unknown.
Born(1796-11-04)4 November 1796
Pancras, London
Died8 December 1871(1871-12-08) (aged 75)
NationalityEnglish
EducationRoyal Academy
Known forSculpture
The Fitzwilliam Museum
The Oxford and Cambridge Club
St Georges Hall, Liverpool, from the southwest
Sir George Don monument, Anglican Cathedral, Gibraltar

Life

He was born in Marylebone, London in 1796. In 1822 he attended the Royal Academy Schools.[1]

He exhibited in the Royal Academy from 1822 to 1861 and was highly respected. His studio was on Grafton Street East - off Tottenham Court Road, London

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography incorrectly states that in about 1849 he adopted his maternal grandchild, Elisabeth Nicholl who aged eleven had become an orphan. In time it was claimed that she had spititual powers.[2]

Nicholl had 7 known children, the first born in 1821 and the last in 1843. Only the first two children (both female) married.  In 1850 the family (except the first daughter) lived in Sydney, NSW, where he opened a sculpture gallery that proved to be unsuccessful and the family returned to London in 1854.

Elizabeth White lived with Nicholl in the 1861 census at 57 Teddington Low Road, Teddington, Middlesex using her correct birth surname of White and describing herself as Nicholl's married daughter. Nicholl's wife and unmarried children were living in Camden, London. On 19th October 1865 an Elizabeth Clara White born 22 January 1838 underwent an adult baptism at St Giles in the Fields, London, giving her parents names as William Grinsell & Elizabeth and the family name Nicholl.[3] Elizabeth White married, using her correct name, a wealthy man called Guppy and witnessed the will of William Grinsell Nicholl one week before he died in the family home in Churchfield Road, Acton, west London on 8 December 1871.[4]

Architectural works

Other works

Family

He married Emma Elizabeth Nicholson in Paddington, London, on 17 April 1821. Between 1851 and 1854 they lived with most of their children in Sydney, Australia. Nicholl's second daughter, Charlotte Anne (1824-1905), married John Russell an iron founder, 17 February 1855 in St James Church, Sydney and their son John Peter Russell, the Australian impressionist painter, was born in 1858.

References

  1. "William Grinsell Nicholl - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951".
  2. Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004), "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. ref:odnb/54083, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54083, retrieved 25 March 2023
  3. Baptism Records, St.Giles in the feilds,London
  4. Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis
  5. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lions_on_St_George's_Plateau,
  6. Architectural History of Cambridgevol3 p.210
  7. Builder (journal) 1846 p.505.
  8. "31 Liverpool statues and the true stories behind them". 14 July 2019.
  9. Builder (journal) 1862 p.499
  10. "Philip Mould | Historical Portraits | King George III %7C William Grinsell Nicholl | Item Details".
  11. "William Grinsell Nicholl (1796-1871)".
  12. "Philip Rundell (1743-1827) | Nicholl, William Grinsell | V&A Explore the Collections".
  13. "The Annual Biography and Obituary 1833 p.405".
  14. "Walthamstow: Churches | British History Online".
  15. "St Andrew's Church, formerly in Wells Street, now at Kingsbury, Middlesex | UCL the Survey of London".
  16. Jameson, Anna. Introduction to The decorations of the garden-pavilion in the grounds of Buckingham palace. Ed. Ludwig Grüner. London: John Murray, 1846.
  17. A descriptive Catalogue of the Paintings, Statues etc. in the India Office by William Foster (1924)
  18. A descriptive Catalogue of the Paintings, Statues etc. in the India Office by William Foster (1924)
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