Location

Country: Egypt
City: Cairo
Place: British Embassy

John Nash, painter, wood engraver and illustrator, was born in London. He was the younger brother of British artist, Paul Nash (1889-1946) with whom he shared his first exhibition at the Dorien Leigh Galleries (London, 1913). After serving with the Artists Rifles during the First World War and working as Official War Artist from 1916 to 1918, John Nash became the first art critic of the ‘London Mercury’ magazine in 1919. During the 1920s and 1930s he taught at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, and the Royal College of Art, London. Although more often associated with landscape painting, Nash was also a prolific book illustrator who specialised in botanical drawing and had developed a great knowledge of plant types since childhood.

Places

Subjects

landscape C20th, London Group, field, road, fence, quarry

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

John Northcote Nash (1893 - 1977)

Title

Panorama of Pyramids

Date

1953

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 66.00 cm, width: 126.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, February 1961

Inscription

BL: John Nash / 1953

Provenance

Consigned by the artist to Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in March 1961

GAC number

5428