Landscape
Artist
Elizabeth Wemyss Nasmyth
(British, 1793-1862)
CultureBritish
Date1849
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm)
InscribedSigned back: "Elizabeth Nasmyth 1849"
Credit LineGift of Edward J. Brickhouse
Object number84.463
Not on view
DescriptionOil on canvas painting.Label TextElizabeth Wemyss Nasmyth British (1793-1862) Landscape, 1849 Oil on canvas Gift of Edward J. Brickhouse 84.463 Elizabeth Nasmyth was trained by her father, the Edinburgh portrait and landscape painter Alexander Nasmyth, who ran a busy painting studio and conducted art classes in his home. Alexander trained at least six of his eleven children to paint landscapes and doubtless relied on several of them to assist him in the family shop. Though son Patrick went on to have a successful and well documented London career, far less is known about the artistic careers of Elizabeth or her sisters Barbara, Margaret, Anne, Jane, and Charlotte. Paintings by the Nasmyth family are often pastiches of the work of more famous English and continental landscape painters, whose art they probably studied through engravings. Such is the case with Elizabeth's charming Landscape, which combines a typically open English country vista on the left with a far wilder tangle of trees and underbrush borrowed from the art of earlier Italian artists. Exhibition History"Women of the Chrysler: a 400-Year Celebration of the Arts," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., March 24 - July 18, 2010.
