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A Digger [Portrait of Tom Herket]
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Hilda Rix Nicholas returned to Australia in 1918 and took a studio in Mosman, Sydney in 1919. She made drawings of soldiers who had returned from the war and were yet to find employment. During this ...ART96812
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A man
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
'The First World War left indelible scars on Hilda Rix Nicholas's psyche and her painting 'A man' is imbued with that experience. Rix Nicholas chose a returned serviceman as the model for 'A man'. But...ART19613
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A mother of France
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Hilda Rix Nicholas painted this old woman in Étaples, in the north of France during the First World War. The woman is depicted seated in her kitchen with her hands folded in her lap, a row of blue pla...ART03281
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Athol Nicholas
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Athol Miller Nicholas (1897-1964) was the youngest of the four Nicholas brothers to serve. He enlisted at 18 and travelled to France as part of the 16th Reinforcements and was attached to the 22nd Bat...ART96810
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Corp. Frank Nicholas
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Stephen Francis Nicholas (b.1895) worked as a journalist prior to enlisting in 1916 along with his younger brother Athol. The brothers came out from Australia with 16th reinforcements attached to the ...ART96809
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In France
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Hilda Rix Nicholas was studying in France at the outbreak of the First World War and was evacuated to London. She experienced the tragedy of war first hand; her husband, Major George Matson Nicholas w...ART90243
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Lieutenant B. F. Nicholas
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Bryon Fitzgerald Nicholas (1893–1917) enlisted at the same time as his older brother George Matson Nicholas. He left Australia as a trooper with the 13th Light Horse Regiment and also saw service on G...ART96808
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Major George Matson Nicholas
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Rix Nicholas drew this portrait of her new husband two days after their wedding on 9 October 1916. The eldest of six brothers, George or ‘Matson’ Nicholas (1887-1916) as he was known, was a school t...ART96807
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not titled [Seated solider wearing helmut]
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Seated three quarter length portrait of a soldier in black charcoal and coloured pastel. He is side on to the viewer and wearing full battle dress. Purchased with assistance from the Australian Gover...ART96814
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not titled [Soldier in helmet]
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Three quarter length portrait of a soldier in black charcoal. He is wearing full battle dress and holding a rifle in his right hand and a bayonet in his left. This is evidence of Rix Nicholas’s confid...ART96813
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not titled [Study for Pro Humanitate]
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
This drawing is a study for the central panel of the triptych Pro Humanitate (1917) one of three major oil paintings completed by Rix Nicholas in the years directly following the death of her husband....ART96815
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Soldier Hindhead [Frank Nicholas]
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
This colour portrait was drawn by Rix Nicholas on 24 September 1917 at Hindhead, Surrey. This village in Surrey is located south west of Guildford and was where Hilda had spent her honeymoon with Mats...ART96811
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Stand at ease
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Three quarter length portrait of a First World War soldier in charcoal and coloured pastel. The artist Hilda Rix Nicholas married pastoralist Edgar Wright in 1928 and moved to live at his property '...ART96042