Susannah Fauntleroy Quarles Nicholson was married to fellow painter Jacob Cannon Nicholson and the pair worked together as portraitists in Amherst.
Her second husband was the painter Jacob Cannon Nicholson. The Nicholsons are recorded as working as portraitists in Amherst, Virginia in 1839, and together the couple advertised their services as both portraitists and miniaturists in the Lynchburg Virginian. 
