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Biography: Nicoll, Archibald Frank

Archibald Frank Nicoll painting a portrait of Sir George Harper, 1931

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Archibald Frank Nicoll painting a portrait of Sir George Harper, 1931

Regarded as one of New Zealand's foremost portraitists, Archibald Nicoll was also an important landscape painter and an influential teacher.

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Neil Roberts. 'Nicoll, Archibald Frank', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2757/archibald-frank-nicoll-painting-a-portrait-of-sir-george-harper-1931 (accessed 4 June 2026).