The Independent - London, January 21st, 1996
THERE ARE a number of dynasties in British art, and perhaps the most powerful of them is the Nicholson family. William Nicholson, who is the subject of a lovely exhibition at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, was born in 1872, studied under the Victorian painter Hubert von Herkomer and then went to the Academie Julian, where he met the Scottish painter James Pryde and promptly married his sister Mabel. Their son, the painter Ben Nicholson, was born in 1894. Ben was married to Barbara Hepworth, and all their children had artistic careers. One of them is married to Sir Alan Bowness, former Director of...
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