Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (1854-1930)
- Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (1854-1930)
- A Quiet Corner in St. Mark’s (two signed sketches on one sheet)
- Watercolor and graphite on paper
- 9 x 5 1/8 (window) x 15 x 9 (mat)
- Signed Rhoda Holmes at lower right below each sketch
An artist and educator, Rhoda Holmes Nicholls was born in Coventry, England. She spent her early years in the West Sussex town of Littlehampton where her father served as a parish vicar. An educated man, he received a Master of Arts from Wadham College, Oxford in 1845. Her grandmother, a talented watercolorist, likely encouraged the young Nicholls’s artistic aspirations. She attended the Bloomsbury School of Art in London and later studied at the Kensington Museum.