William Nicholls Anderson b. 1873

  • Artist (Painter)
A student of Frederick McCubbin, William Nicholls Anderson was a landscape painter who exhibited for several decades with the Victorian Artists Society. On his death William Moore pronounced him an uneven painter who 'occasionally accomplished something rare'.

Painter, studied at the NGV Schools under Frederick McCubbin in 1894-96. He exhibited at the VAS from 1901 to 1927 and was Secretary in 1915-19 (succeeding A. Colquhoun and preceding J.J. Collins ). He painted landscapes in and around Melbourne and occasionally in Sydney, where he had relatives. In May 2001 Bridget McDonnell was showing his 11.4 × 20.5 cm oil on panel painting Neutral Bay , dated 1910 (according to the catalogue text although the figure looks like '12’ on the colour illustration). 'The late W.N. Anderson was an unequal painter who occasionally accomplished something rare,’ said William Moore ( SAA ).

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Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011