Job Nixon was born in the Staffordshire Potteries and won a scholarship to study at the RCA. when he was eighteen. He joined the Slade after the war and studied under Tonks winning another scholarship to enter the British School of Engraving in Rome. He became a teaching assistant to Malcolm Osborne at the RCA. in 1924. A catalogue of his printed work was published in the Print Collectors Quarterly in 1927: Hugh Stokes: The Etchings of Job Nixon with a catalogue by Harold J.L.Wright. P.C.Q. vol. 14 No.3. 1927.