 Alexander Naysmith is primarily known as Alexander Nasmyth
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from Auction House Records.
View of Dreghorn Castle, Midlothian, with figures and a hay cart in the foreground
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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 visite (showing 500 of 6892 characters). |
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