The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 plates on a whitewashed shelf in the background. At the outbreak of the First World War, Rix Nicholas and her sister were living in Étaples. They later returned to London, but Rix Nicholas's mother and sister died of illness. In 1916, she met and married a fellow Australian, Major George Nicholas, who was killed five weeks later on the Western Front. 'A mother of France' can be seen as a comment on the grief of mothers whose sons are killed in war.
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
This skillfully rendered portrait is a preparatory study for Rix Nicholas’s seminal wartime portrait ‘A Man’ painted in 1921 (ART19613). The artist had returned to Australia in 1918 and established a
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 '
'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
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
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
