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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in LaGrange, Texas, Royston Nave was a portrait painter who settled in Victoria, Texas. He studied with Robert Henri, Walt Kuhn, and Lawton Parker and exhibited with the Society of Independent Artists, the National Academy of Design (1921), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1921), the St. Louis Museum and the Carnegie Institute. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club.
His work is in the Nave of the Texas State Capitol building in Austin.
Source:
Michael Grauer, "Dictionary of Texas Artists"
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
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Anonymous note:
Royston Nave was the son of a well known painter of Texas, Lou Scott Royston. He studied under well known and diverse mentors, and he became renowned in New York, served in WW1, and had exhibitions in a list of the best galleries. His portrait of Rebecca Fisher, the "Mother of Texas," is in the collection of the State of Texas in Austin.
He died of a heart attack at age 44. His widow, Emma McFaddin McCan Nave, commissioned the Nave Museum in Victoria, Texas in the early 1930s, to house the paintings of her husband. He did a sculptor bust for his mother's grave in La Grange, Texas, that is quite famous.
I am not of the art community, and had not even heard of this man before coming across his name on the genealogy search. I share the same surname, and it seems that I may be related. Anyway, what I have learned about this man makes me wonder why he is not more recognized in 20th century American art.
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