This painting is the watercolour version of a virtually identical oil painting by this artist, dated 1876, that was sold at auction in Germany in October 2006 for £2,648.  If you are a subscriber to findartinfo.com, you can view the image.  If not, you can view the listing, but not the image.  There are 27 listings for this artist on findartinfo. com, and 75 on artprice.com, on which 11 are watercolours.  His work is regularly featured in Hislop's Guide to the UK Art Market.

POLLOK SINCLAIR NISBET, was born in Edinburgh and was the elder brother of Robert Buchan Nisbet, another well listed artist.  He painted landscapes and town scenes in oil and watercolour.  He travelled widely in Italy, Spain, Morocco and Algeria, and worked in venice in 1873 and c. 1881.  He also painted Scottish lochs and glens, but his best works are his watercolours of lively Arab or Venetian market places and buildings in the Mediterranean sunlight.  He was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1892 and Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1881.  He died in Edinburgh in 1922.  He exhibited 165 works at the Royal Scottish Academy, 119 at the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour, 69 at the Glasgow Institute and 21 at other Galleries.

His biographical information can be found in Christopher Wood's Dictionary of Victorian Painters, The Dictionary of Scottish Painters and the Dictionary of British Artists.  If you care to do an internet search, there is various other information available.  We have shown a page from the Diction ary of Scottish Painters, showing another example of work by this artist.

The painting is mounted with wash lines and is framed in a 1 1/4" gilt frame, both of which complement the painting very well.  It is ready to hang.

Image size:  13 1/2" x 10 1/2"  -  34cm x 27cm

Frame size:  22" x 19 3/4"  -  56cm x 50cm

Medium:  Watercolours

Condition:  Excellent.

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