Representing the Irish in the United States The Circulation of Erskine Nicol’s Popular Artworks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

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Published: Nov 9, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34929/imaginaires.vi22.8
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cultural studies, Erskine Nicol

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Amélie Dochy
Université Toulouse-II Jean-Jaurès

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Erskine Nicol (1825-1904) was a Scottish painter whose pictures were mainly devoted to the representations of Ireland and the Irish, as can be seen with The Legacy also called Good News, which today is preserved in the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston. Nicol became popular in the United Kingdom in the 1850s: his artworks were sold and exhibited in Great Britain as well as in Ireland, and they were also shown in the United States or in France thanks to the international networks set up by British art dealers in the nineteenth century.

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Dochy, A. (2020). Representing the Irish in the United States: The Circulation of Erskine Nicol’s Popular Artworks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Imaginaires, (22), 103-118. https://doi.org/10.34929/imaginaires.vi22.8
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No. 22 (2019): How Popular Culture Travels
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Amélie Dochy, Université Toulouse-II Jean-Jaurès

Amélie Dochy taught at the National University of Ireland (Maynooth) before sitting the French civil service exam for a tenured English teaching position (“Agrégation d’Anglais”) in 2009. She then became a Research Assistant at the University of Toulouse II (France) and her PhD in Irish studies focused on the topic of “Cliché, Compassion or Commerce? The Representations of the Irish by the Scottish Painter Erskine Nicol (1850-1904)”. She adopted a post-colonial approach in analysing the portrayal of the Irish through the iconography of Nicol’s prolific depictions. Following this, she was awarded the prestigious Sydney Forado Prize by the “Académie des Sciences et Belles Lettres” (Toulouse) in recognition of her choice of historical approach. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Toulouse II and her research interests include visual representations of the Irish in the second half of the nineteenth century.