Alexander Nasmyth

(1758-1840)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Nasmyth, Alexander, 1758-1840 NRA: Nasmyth Alexander (1758-1840) Portrait Painter DNB: Nasmyth, Alexander (1758-1840), artist and engineer LBT ID: AlNasmi1840 VIAF ID: 64809910 LOC ID: n87113260	B/BAP: 1758-09-09 DIED: 1840-04-10
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Scottish landscape and portrait painter, educated at Edinburgh High School; his pupils included David Wilkie and Clarkson Stanfield.
REFERENCES TO Alexander Nasmyth: Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 16 May 1818 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1786-90 Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter IV 1818 Found 1: ¶ n1