The English artist, Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, is acclaimed as the pioneer of abstract art in England, whose austere geometric paintings and reliefs were among the most influential abstract works in British art.

Best-known for his Cubist-influenced works, Nicholson was born on April 10, 1894, in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England to the painters Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde.