Cecilia Margaret Nairn Explained

Cecilia Margaret Nairn
Birth Name:Cecilia Margaret Campbell
Birth Date:1791
Death Date:4 June 1857
Nationality:Irish
Known For:wax sculptor, painter

Cecilia Margaret Nairn (1791 – 4 June 1857) was an Irish wax modeller and painter.[1] She specialised in landscape watercolour paintings and modelling flowers.[2] Nairn's paintings were exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1826 to 1851.[3]

Career

She was a pupil of her father John Henry Campbell, himself a painter.[4] At the age of eighteen, she began to showcase her work through various exhibits. In 1809, she sent her work to the exhibition on Hawkins Street in Dublin to be viewed; she continually contributed to this exhibit until 1821. After this time, she sporadically contributed her work to the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1826 to 1847 in the towns of Killarney and Wicklow.[5] The Ulster Museum hold a number of her watercolours.[6]

Life and death

Nairn was born in Dublin in 1791.[6] She had two brothers, John and Charles.[7] John lived in Belfast and was a designer of damask and linen patterns, and Charles was an army officer. She married Irish horse painter George Nairn (1799 – 25 January 1850). Both their daughter, Anna Langley Nairn (fl. 1844 – 1848, later Armstrong),[8] [9] and their son, John Campbell Nairn, became artists. After George died from a long and painful illness on 25 January 1850, her death quickly followed; she died in Oak House, Battersea, on 4 June 1850 at the age of 65.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Nairn, Cecilia Margaret. 2011-10-31. Oxford University Press. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00128539. 2018-07-05. 2018-07-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20180705180616/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00128539. dead.
  2. Web site: Cecilia Margaret Campbell (Irish, 1791–1857). live. 2021-12-13. www.artnet.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20180705180409/http://www.artnet.com/artists/cecilia-margaret-campbell/ . 2018-07-05 .
  3. Book: Gray, Sara . The Dictionary of British Women Artists . O . . 2009 . 978-0718830847. (listed as "O'Connor, Cecilia Margaret", father: "J.A. O'Connor")
  4. Book: Irish Women Artists: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day . 178 . . . 0903162407. 1987 .
  5. Web site: NEAR GLENTIES, COUNTY DONEGAL, 1850 (A PAIR) by Cecilia Margaret Nairn (1791-1857) (1791-1857) at Whyte's Auctions Whyte's - Irish Art & Collectibles. Whyte's. 2019-04-26.
  6. Book: Butler, Patricia. Three hundred years of Irish watercolours and drawings. 1997. Phoenix Illustrated. 0-7538-0206-6. London. 65–66. 39489326.
  7. Web site: Clarke. Frances. 2009. Cecilia Margaret Campbell in Campbell, John Henry. live. 2021-12-13. Dictionary of Irish Biography. https://web.archive.org/web/20211213133902/https://www.dib.ie/biography/campbell-john-henry-a1425 . 2021-12-13 .
  8. Web site: ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research). 2021-12-13. www.getty.edu.
  9. Book: Irish watercolors and drawings: works on paper c. 1600-1914 . Anne . Crookshank . Anne Crookshank . Desmond . FitzGerald . Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin . . 1995 . 0810934663 . 91, 299, 308.

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