Patrick Nasmyth

Landscape

c.1807

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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

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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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