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Alexander Nasmyth

Alexander Nasmyth (1758 - 1840) was active/lived in England, United Kingdom, Scotland.  Alexander Nasmyth is known for Landscape painting, illustration, teaching.

Alexander Nasmyth was a painter, illustrator, landscape gardener and engineer. He was educated for a career in architecture, but at an early age he showed artistic talent, and in 1773 he was apprenticed to James Cummyng (c. 1730-92), a house decorator and antiquarian. Nasmyth painted panels for carriages at Alexander Crichton's coachworks and attended evening classes at the Trustees' Academy. When Allan Ramsay visited Crichton in 1774, he was impressed with Nasmyth's ability. Nasmyth subsequently accompanied Ramsay to his London studio where he continued his apprenticeship for four years.

Nasmyth returned to Edinburgh at the end of 1778 and soon obtained ample employment as a portrait painter. His earliest works, for example John Scott of Malleny (1781; Malleny House, Lothian, National Trust Scotland), followed Ramsay's practice of showing the head and shoulders of the sitter against a plain background, but Nasmyth gradually liberated himself   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9218 characters.]  Artist bio

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