Margaret Nasmyth
Margaret Nasmyth (1791–1869) was a Scottish landscape painter.
Margaret Nasmyth
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- Born
- 11 April 1791
- Died
- 3 November 1869 (aged 77) Margaret Nasmyth (1791–1869) was a Scottish landscape painter.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Great Britain · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- English
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• Born — 11 April 1791 • Died — 3 November 1869 (aged 77) Margaret Nasmyth (1791–1869) was a Scottish landscape painter.
Documentary record
Margaret Nasmyth (1791 – 1869) is described as a painter in the authority records of the Getty Union List of Artist Names. The birth of Margaret Nasmyth is recorded in 1791, and the death in 1869.
Early life
Early life
Margaret Nasmyth was born on 11 April 1791 in Hill Street, St Andrew's parish, Edinburgh, into the distinguished Nasmyth family of painters and art teachers. Her father Alexander Nasmyth and six of her siblings—Jane, Barbara, Elizabeth, Anne, Charlotte, and Patrick—were all notable artists.
Style
Style
Margaret imitated her father in style, but like Barbara she also practiced the more detailed, minute brushwork of her brother Patrick. Margaret left her father's house in 1836 to dwell with her brothers James and George, at Green Lane House, Patricroft, Manchester. She did not exhibit until 1841 at the age of fifty, by which date the whole family had come to live with James, when presumably she had more leisure time to devote to painting. She travelled widely, drawing subjects from across Scotland, Cumberland, Lancashire, north Wales, Shropshire, Westmorland, Cheshire, Blackford Heath, and Chigwell, Essex.
Exhibits
Exhibits
She exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists (1841– 65), the Royal Scottish Academy (1830–61), the Royal Hibernian Academy (1843) and the Royal Glasgow Institute (1862–66). She died at Stanhope Villas on 3 November 1869.
Works
Works
Her technique is fine and detailed, and she expended much care on all aspects of her paintings. Fine examples are Lake Scene and View of Kinfauns Castle Perthshire. She signed her work 'Margaret Nasmyth' in the bottom left-hand corner in a large, clear hand; or sometimes 'MN' with the date, in the bottom right-hand corner.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1791
Margaret Nasmyth born.
1869
Margaret Nasmyth died.
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- 1.Cooksey 2004.
- 2.Gray 2009, p. 194.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Cooksey, J. C. B. (2004). "Nasmyth family (per. 1788–1884), painters and art teachers". In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
- Gray, Sara (2009). "Margaret Nasmyth". In The Dictionary of Women Artists. Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press.
- Johnson, P. and Money, E. (1977). The Nasmyth Family of Painters. Leigh-On-Sea: F. Lewis.
- Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011). "Nasmyth, Margaret". In Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press.
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