Hume Nisbet

Nisbet was born in Stirling, Scotland, and received special artistic training, and was educated under the Rev. Dr. Culross (later of Bristol College) up to the age of fifteen. He moved to Australia at sixteen and spent about seven years there, during which time he travelled to Tasmania, New Zealand, and the South Sea Islands, painting, sketching, writing poetry and stories, and making notes for future work. He spent one year of the period acquiring theatrical experience at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, under the actor Richard Stewart. ==Painting==

Nisbet returned to London in 1872, and spent some time in studying and copying pictures in the National Gallery and in South Kensington. At the end of the next year he went back to Scotland and devoted himself to art, with an occasional lapse into literature. Among his best-known paintings are "Eve's first Moonrise," "The Flying Dutchman," "The Dream of Sardanapalus," four pictures of "The Ancient Mariner," and "The Battle of Dunbar." ==Writing==

Nisbet produced a large volume of writing. whose title story (about a haunted property or "station" in the Australian Outback) has often been reprinted. Nisbet was a member of the Yorick Club, London, and a friend of Philip Mennell. Nisbet died in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, on 4 June 1923. ==Bibliography==