page_title: Nelly Erichsen
section_title: Family history
hierarchical_section_title: Nelly Erichsen / Biography / Family history
caption_attribution_description: English: Ida Marie Suhr and her cousin Nelly Erichsen.
context_page_description: Nelly Erichsen was an English illustrator and painter. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, she was born into a wealthy professional Danish family. After studies at the Royal Academy of Art in the 1880s, she pursued a successful career as an illustrator and writer, working with a number of publishing firms including J.M. Dent and Macmillan, and jointly publishing travel books with Janet Ross, a prominent member of the Anglo-Tuscan pre-War community. In July 2018 "Nelly Erichsen - A Hidden Life", a biography of Erichsen by Sarah Harkness was published.
context_section_description: Nelly Erichsen was born on 9 December 1862 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the fourth of six children. Her father was Herman Gustav Erichsen, born in Copenhagen in October 1826 who, after a ‘commercial education’ and travelling in Europe, came to Newcastle as a young man of just 22. Nelly’s mother, Anna Dorothea Suhr,  who was also born in Denmark, in 1827, was the sister of Ole Berendt Suhr.
   
  In the late 1860s Herman, originally a general trader, invested in the formation of the Great Northern Telegraph Company and became that company’s representative in England until the time of his death, moving his family to live in Tooting, South London. Herman was a successful businessman, with shareholdings in other telegraph businesses and companies in his native Denmark. He died on 6 December 1889 at the age of 63. Nelly Erichsen was fluent in Danish and kept a close relationship to her parents' home country. Her sister Alice Erichsen was a translator of Danish literature into English.
caption: Erichsen and her cousin Ida Marie Suhr in 1884
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