Nichols' works include a portrait of Speaker Andrew Stevenson which was completed in 1911 and hangs in the House of Representatives. Career Īccording to Nichols, he was devoted to art from "as far back as I can remember." At the age of 11 he left school to concentrate on painting and portraiture. They had four children, Spencer Mather born 1912, Hobarth born 1915, Margaret in 1921 and Helen in 1924.Īndrew Stevenson by Spencer Baird Nichols. With these steady incomes, he was able to marry Helen that year.Īfter marriage, Nichols and his wife moved to an artists' colony in Bronxville, New York.
He also took a position designing stained glass windows and murals for Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios. In 1911 Nichols contracted to provide illustrations to the publishing house Frederick A. He met his wife, Helen Agnes Mather, while serving as an instructor there. He also took classes at the Art Students' League. Nichols' childhood was spent in Washington, D.C., and although he dropped out of school at age 11 in order to concentrate on his art, he went on to study under Howard Helmick and to attend the Corcoran School of Art and Design. The brothers both married artists and their descendants include painters. Spencer's brother, Henry Hobart Nichols Jr., was a landscape painter. He named his son Spencer Baird Nichols after Spencer Fullerton Baird, a naturalist, prolific writer, and first curator of the National Museum at the Smithsonian. Nichols' father, Hobart Nichols, was a noted wood engraver who engraved the sketches in The History of North American Birds by Baird, Brewer and Ridgway. Grandmother's Garden: an early oil on canvas by Spencer Baird Nichols.
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