Nisbet, Robert Hogg (American)
1879-1961
Description: "The Surveyor's Assistant," etching,
pencil signed l/r, inscribed l/l, 9"
x 12.5" plate, 14.5" x 19.5"
sheet, unframed.
Condition: Excellent.
Biography: Robert Hogg Nisbet was born in Providence,
Rhode Island on August 25, 1879. His parents
were William Douglas Nisbet and Isabella
Hogg. He entered the Rhode Island School
of Design when he was eight. He later studied
in New York and abroad. He taught at Brown
University and was president of the Art Students
League of New York, where he served as president
from 1909-1910.
He was elected an Associate Member
of the
National Academy of Design in
1920 and a
National Academician (N.A.) in
1928. He was
an Artist Life member of the
National Arts
Club. One of the incorporators
of the Society
of American Etchers, he was also
a member
of the Philadelphia Society of
Etchers. During
the early 1900's, Nisbet summered
in Old
Lyme, Connecticut, and eventually
settled
in Kent, Connecticut where he
founded the
Kent Art Association whose members
included
Willard Metcalf.
His work won him three National
Academy awards,
several etching awards, and the
National
Arts Club (Painting) prize. His
etchings
and paintings were exhibited
in Paris, France,
Yale University, Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York Library, National Gallery,
Smithsonian
Institution, and Library of Congress
in Washington,
D.C. The Smithsonian Institution
has a database
with references to fourteen of
his works.
Paintings and etchings by Robert
H. Nisbet
sell for from hundreds of dollars
to more
than $10,000.
He took up rifle shooting as
a boy, and during
World War II was a commissioned
rifle instructor.
He won a number of shooting competitions.
He was also interested in archery,
and he
owned collections of minerals
and sea shells.
In 1951 he lived in South Kent,
Connecticut
in a house in the country with
his wife,
Mrs. Nisbet. They had a large
house and studio,
and he was considered quite wealthy.
He had
a collection of four thousand
books. He was
a member of the Masons, and was
the Deputy
Grand Master of the Masons of
Connecticut.
His final life was a tragedy
as his wife
became a complete invalid following
a stroke
about 1953 and required 24 hour-a-day
nursing
care which just about bankrupted
him. On
Robert's death, April 20, 1961,
she was put
in a Masonic home where she died
in less
than a week.
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