Nixon (Job) RWS RE NEAC

, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.,, 1927.
a view of the small medieval town of Anticoli Corrado, north east of Rome, popular with several British artists between the wars. Job Nixon (1891-1938), a painter and printmaker, won the first scholarship for engraving for the British School at Rome. He had already studied under Sir Frank Short at the Royal College of Art from 1910, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1915. But his artistic heritage went back to his birth in Staffordshire where his father was a pottery printer and his mother a pottery painter, so little wonder he began his career in the engraving department of the Minton Pottery. After his Italian sojourn, he taught in the engraving school of the Royal College and at the Slade School of Art..
255 by 360mm (10 by 14¼ inches).