Not on display
- Artist
- Patrick Nasmyth 1787–1831
- Medium
- Oil paint on oak
- Dimensions
- Support: 298 x 391 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
- Reference
- N00380
Display caption
Patrick Nasmyth was the son of a landscape painter named Alexander. He had pioneered a specifically Scottish imagery in tune with resurgent Scots nationalism, but his son lived and worked in England and pursued a more formulaic
route. Patrick’s often generalised
landscapes were modelled on the seventeenth-century Dutch art favoured by collectors. They proved very popular.
Patrick’s brother, James, summed up the stock features of such pictures: ‘decayed pollard trees, old moss-grown orchards, combined with cottages and farmhouses in the most paintable state of decay, with tangled hedges and neglected fences overrun with vegetation.’
Gallery label, September 2004
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