{"id":131223,"date":"2023-01-08T17:04:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T00:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131223"},"modified":"2023-01-08T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T00:04:58","slug":"watercolour-paintings-by-irish-artist-andrew-nicoll-presented-to-the-pathfinder-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/01\/08\/watercolour-paintings-by-irish-artist-andrew-nicoll-presented-to-the-pathfinder-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolour paintings by Irish artist\u00a0Andrew Nicoll presented to the Pathfinder Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Gamini Sarath Godakanda<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><sub>Jennifer Smith, Justice of the Peace and retired London solicitor who has had a long association with Sri Lanka, presented a set of watercolours by the Irish artist, Andrew Nicoll (1804-86) to the Pathfinder Collection. The paintings were recently handed over to Milinda Moragoda,<\/sub><sub> Founder of MMBL-Pathfinder.The Pathfinder Collection was established in 2018, and contains a range of Sri Lankan artefacts, including prints, maps, books, paintings, coins, stamps, seashells, and other items of historical value.<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>About the artist and paintings<\/sub><sub>:<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>Andrew Nicoll spent a brief period in colonial Ceylon during which he&nbsp;&nbsp;taught drawing and landscape painting at the Colombo Academy. He also made a five-week long journey through the jungles of Ceylon during which he painted several subjects including ruined temples, tanks, and&nbsp;<em>dagabas<\/em>, some of which were used to illustrate&nbsp;<em>Ceylon: an Account of the Island,<\/em><\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>Physical Historical and Topographical, etc,&nbsp;<\/sub><\/em><sub>the classic 2-volume work on the island written by then Colonial Secretary, Sir Emerson Tennant. Of this jungle sojourn Nicoll remarked that:<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>\u2018\u2026it was the most interesting I ever had in my life\u2026and will ever be considered by me the most delightful of all my sketching excursions, either at home or in distant lands.\u2019<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>The watercolours of Nicoll, who was a prolific artist, can be found in the painting collections of the Colombo National Museum, the British Museum, and the Victoria &amp;Albert Museum. In addition, fifty six of his watercolours of Ceylon plants and trees were presented to Dublin&#8217;s Royal Hibernian Academy by his daughter in 1889 in memory of her father.<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamini Sarath Godakanda Jennifer Smith, Justice of the Peace and retired London solicitor who has had a long association with Sri Lanka, presented a set of watercolours by the Irish artist, Andrew Nicoll (1804-86) to the Pathfinder Collection. The paintings were recently handed over to Milinda Moragoda, Founder of MMBL-Pathfinder.The Pathfinder Collection was established in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}