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Description: | 48 x 65 x 9.2 cm, original. Damage above bottom right corner; right of bottom e s. b. r. in red paint "A. Nasmyth / Edin / 1816". on back of canvas b.r. "Edingh 1816 / Dunbarton Castle / and town with Ben Lomond / Alex: Nasmyth" CRE NASMYTH, Alexander; (Scottish; 1758-1840) NFA and NACF assisted purchase. LABEL Nasmyth was the most highly regarded landscape artist of his day. He was introduced to Italian painting while working in Allan Ramsay?s London studio and two years studying in Italy instilled in him a love of dramatic landscape and the
picturesque. Back in Scotland he became the main exponent of what we now call ?Romantic? Scottish landscape. This view of a famous beauty spot also shows Dumbarton?s development into an industrial centre whose smoking chimneys can be seen on the left.The engineer James Watt acquired this painting when he visited Nasmyth in 1817. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | DUMBARTON CASTLE : PICTURESQUE : BEN LOMOND : CLYDE : LANDSCAPE : BOAT : FACTORY : RIVER : HILLS : ROCK : SCOTTISH 19TH CENTURY : 2004 : NFA : NACF : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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