A Wooded Landscape with Figures Amongst Ruins

Alexander Nasmyth (1758 - 1840)

Oil on canvas

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A Wooded Landscape with Figures Amongst Ruins
  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Other
    City: stolen
  • About the artist
    Alexander Nasmyth, artist and engineer, was born in Edinburgh, the son of architect and builder Michael Nasmyth. He studied at the high school in Edinburgh and was trained by his father to join the family business. However, instead Nasmyth took an apprenticeship with a house-painter in 1773, before briefly attending the drawing classes of Alexander Runciman the following year. After meeting the portrait painter Allan Ramsay, Nasmyth worked as an assistant in Ramsay’s London studio, before returning to Edinburgh in 1778 to establish himself as a portrait painter. He turned to landscape painting after spending time in Italy between 1782 and 1785 and became one of the chief founders of the Scottish picturesque landscape school.
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    Places
    Subjects
    landscape C18th, landscape C19th, tree, woodland, man, woman, ruin, church windows, archway, column, pillar (architectural feature)
    Materials & Techniques
    canvas, oil, oil painting
  • Details
    Artist
    Alexander Nasmyth (1758 - 1840)
    Title
    A Wooded Landscape with Figures Amongst Ruins
    Date
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 40.60 cm, width: 55.90 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Christie's, March 1977
    GAC number
    13001