Mabel Scott Lauder Pryde (12 February 1871 – July 1918) was a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

artist, the wife of artist William Nicholson, and the mother of artists

Ben Nicholson Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscapes, and still-life. He was one of the leading promoters of abstract art in England. Backg ...

and

Nancy Nicholson Annie "Nancy" Mary Pryde Nicholson (1899–1977) was an English painter and fabric designer. Early life Born Annie Mary Pryde Nicholson, she was the only daughter of the artists Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde. She had three brothers, a ...

and the architect

Christopher Nicholson Christopher David George "Kit" Nicholson (16 December 1904 – 28 July 1948) was a British architect and designer. His principal buildings of the 1930s show strong influences of the Rationalist and International Modernist architectural move ...

Life

She was the daughter of David Pryde, headmaster of Edinburgh Ladies College 1870–1891, and Barbara Lauder, whose father William was a brother of the famous Scottish artists

Robert Scott Lauder Robert Scott Lauder (25 June 1803 – 21 April 1869) was a Scottish artist who described himself as a "historical painter". He was one of the original members of the Royal Scottish Academy. Life and work Lauder was born at Silvermills, Ed ...

and

James Eckford Lauder James Eckford Lauder (15 August 1811 – 27 March 1869) was a notable mid-Victorian era, Victorian Scottish artist, famous for both portraits and historical pictures. Life and work A younger brother of artist Robert Scott Lauder, he was b ...

. Mabel had one brother, the artist

James Pryde James Ferrier Pryde (30 March 1866 – 24 February 1941) was a British artist. A number of his paintings are in public collections, but there have been few exhibitions of his work. He is principally remembered as one of the Beggarstaffs, his ...

. As children, they lived at 10 Fettes Row, a north-facing Edinburgh house. Pryde trained at the Bushey School of Art in

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under the tutelage of

Hubert von Herkomer Sir Hubert von Herkomer (born as Hubert Herkomer; 26 May 1849 – 31 March 1914) was a Bavarian-born British painter, pioneering film-director, and composer. Though a very successful portrait artist, especially of men, he is mainly remembered fo ...

.Mabel Pryde
The Fine Art Society, Retrieved 3 October 2014Rostek, Charlotte (2022), ''Scottish Women Artists'',

The Fleming Collection The Fleming Collection is a large private collection of Scottish art. Originally a corporate collection dominating the walls of the Flemings bank, it had a home in a gallery on Berkeley Square, central London, England from 2002 until the gallery's ...

, p. 21, Here she met fellow student William Nicholson, whom she married in 1893. She introduced Nicholson to her brother James and all three moved to the Eight Bells, a former pub in Denham, in

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. Pryde and Nicholson had four children:

Ben Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given names Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett, Benson or Ebenezer, and is also a given name in its own right. Ben meaning "son of" is also found in Arabic as ''Ben'' (dialectal Arabic) or ''bin ...

(1894–1982); Anthony (1897–1918), killed in action during the

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; Annie Mary "Nancy" (1899–1978); and Christopher "Kit" (1904–1948). They moved to Rottingdean in 1909. In July 1918, Pryde died from

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during the

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Work

Pryde exhibited under her married name in several group shows in London, culminating in a solo show at the

Chenil Gallery The Chenil Gallery (often referred to as the Chenil Galleries, or New Chenil Galleries) was a British art gallery and sometime-music studio in Chelsea, London between 1905 and 1927, and later the location of various businesses referencing this ear ...

in 1912. Her work is included in the collections of the

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, London and the

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. In addition, there was an exhibition of her work at her former home, The Grange, Rottingdean in 2024. File:Mabel Nicholson - Family Group T05847 9.jpg, ''Family Group'', Tate File:Mabel Pryde - Harlequin with Chair NGS NGS GMA 4835-001.jpg, ''Harlequin with Chair'', National Galleries of Scotland File:The Red Jersey - Mabel Nicholson - ABDAG002911.jpg, ''The Red Jersey'',

Aberdeen Art Gallery Aberdeen Art Gallery is the main visual arts exhibition space in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1884 in a building designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, with a sculpture court added in 1905. In 1900, it received the art ...

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Photograph of PrydePryde painting of the HarlequinPryde painting of her familyPryde painting of her son, BenPryde painting of her son, Kit
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