Nicholas Pocock
Nicholas Pocock ( born 2 May 1740 in Bristol, † March 19, 1821 in Maidenhead ) was a British painter who achieved particularly through his drawings of naval fame.
Biography
Pocock's father, also named Nicholas Pocock, a merchant seaman and was in Bristol, from which it is believed that he was related by marriage to the Pocock of Chieveley. The younger Pocock was also the captain of the later Isaac Pocock brother.
From 1757 Pocock was with his father in teaching; He graduated from the fact that he went to sea. His father died in 1759, so Pocock, the eldest of three sons, had to take care of the family income.
With a little training the younger Nicholas Pocock served on a ship and was also an employee of the merchant Richard Champion. On a ship Champions, Lloyd, Pocock sailed to South Carolina. Later Pocock commanded another ship Champions, the Minerva. At sea, discovered the talent to draw Pocock, which again found himself in his Illustrations made for a Seemagazin. Also Champion was a great friend of Pocock's art.
Pocock 1780 sent his first oil drawing at the Royal Academy to educate yourself, but the drawing came too late for an application that would make an upcoming study to take place only in the distant future. However, Pocock received by Sir Joshua Reynolds a letter, in which he recommended to educate him. Two years later, presented for the first time from a painting by Pocock in the Royal Academy, it was entitled A View of Redcliff Church from the Sea Banks. Until 1815 he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy pictures, mainly those battles were dedicated.
From 1789 lived in London Pocock, 1796 in Westminster, where he was in contact with many high dignitaries of the British Navy.
In 1804, Pocock the Watercolour Society, which was true in 1812 temporarily raised, but his involvement in the form of lasted until 1817. While he was in the union, he exhibited 182 works, more than in the Royal Academy.
Pocock pulled back away from London in 1817 and later sat down for health reasons on his eldest son a residence in Maidenhead to rest, where he died in 1821. Like his brother Isaac Nicholas Pocock was buried in the family's crypt both Cookham Church.
Despite his landscape paintings Pocock has received much recognition especially for his scenes of naval battles.