Richard Henry Nibbs
Richard Henry Nibbs was an English painter and book illustrator who specialised in marine art.
Nibbs was born in Brighton, Sussex, England and educated at a school in Worthing. He lived in Brighton throughout his life. Nibbs initially trained as a musician and became a professional cellist with the Theatre Royal orchestra. However, a lifelong love of art combined with a natural talent for detailed observation led him to become a self-taught painter - in both oils and watercolour - particularly of marine subjects. In 1840 a substantial inheritance allowed him to devote himself full-time to art.
His marine art depicts scenes mainly off the coast of his native Sussex, France and Holland - though he also drew buildings and landscapes. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists.
Selected works
Paintings:- Low Water: Newhaven Harbour, Sussex.
- HMS Vengeance at Spithead.
- Queen Victoria landing at the Chain Pier, Brighton.
- Brighton promenade, 1850.
- Shipping on the Thames.
- Shoreham.
- Philadelphia Harbour.
- Lower, Mark Anthony. The Churches of Sussex: With Historical and Archaeological Descriptions
- Nibbs, R. H. ''Antiquities of Sussex''