Painter, illustrator and ship modeller who attended Cardiff Art School, and was at the Herkomer School in Bushey for several years in the mid-1890s. He married twice, both fellow-students at Bushey: first Beatrice Michel, secondly Maud Cawker, who survived him to 1961. Despite being a star student at Bushey, Nance’s exhibiting career only lasted until about 1910. As a small boy he had lived a while in St Ives, Cornwall, where his grandfather had taught him a love of ships, which resulted in highly skilled drawings and paintings of them. In his middle years Nance’s enthusiasm for sailing ships and Cornwall took over from art and he settled in the Carbis Bay area. Among his publications was Sailing Ship Models. He became the editor of Old Cornwall, was Grand Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, 1934–59, and was president of several other institutions concerned with Cornish affairs.