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Job Nixon (1891–1938) was an English painter and engraver. He was born in 1891 in The Potteries, in Staffordshire. When he was eighteen, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. He later studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, and then another scholarship enabled him to attend the British School of Engraving in Rome. He as known for his etchings and drypoints, producing over 75. Many of these depicted places in France or Italy. He became an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1928 and a member in 1934. He died in 1938.