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See also:NASMYTH, See also:ALEXANDER (1758-1840) , Scottish portrait and landscape painter, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 9th of See also:September 1758. He studied at the Trustees' See also:Academy under See also:Runciman, and, having been apprenticed as an heraldic painter to a See also:coach-builder, he, at the See also:age of sixteen, attracted the See also:attention of See also:Allan See also:Ramsay, who took the youth with him to See also:London, and employed him upon the subordinate portions of his See also:works. Nasmyth returned to Edinburgh in 1778, and was soon largely patronized as a portrait painter. He also assisted Mr See also:Miller of Dalswinton, as draughtsman, in his See also:mechanical researches and experiments; and, this See also:gentleman having generously offered the painter a See also:loan to enable him to pursue his studies abroad, he See also:left in 1782 for See also:Italy, where he remained two years. On his return he painted
the excellent portrait of See also:Burns, now in the Scottish See also:National See also:Gallery, well known through See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker's See also:engraving. See also:Political feeling at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time ran high in Edinburgh, and Nasmyth's pronounced Liberal opinions, which he was too outspoken and sincere to disguise, gave offence to many of his aristocratic patrons, and led to the diminution of his practice as a portraitist. In his later years, accordingly, he devoted himself mainly to landscape See also:work, and did not disdain on occasion to set his See also:hand to See also:scene-See also:painting for the theatres. He has been styled, not unjustly, the " See also:father of Scottish landscape See also:art." His subjects are carefully finished and coloured, but are wanting in boldness and freedom. Nasmyth was also largely employed by noblemen throughout the See also:country in the improving and beautifying of their estates, in which his See also:fine See also:taste rendered him especially skilful; and he was known as an architect, having designed the See also:Dean See also:Bridge, Edinburgh, and the graceful circular See also:temple covering St See also:Bernard's Well. Nasmyth died in his native See also:city on the loth of See also:April 184o. His youngest son, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James, was the well-known inventor of the See also:steam-See also:hammer. His six daughters all attained a certain See also:local reputation as artists, but it was in his eldest son, See also:Patrick (1787-1831), that the See also:artistic skill of his See also:family was most powerfully See also:developed. Having studied under his father, Patrick went to London at the age of twenty, and soon attracted attention as a See also:clever landscapist. He was a diligent student of the works of See also:Claude and See also:Richard See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson, and of See also:Ruysdael and See also:Hobbema, upon whom his own practice was mainly founded. His most characteristic paintings are of See also:English domestic scenery, full of quiet See also:tone and See also:colour, and detailed and See also:minute expression of foliage, and with considerable brilliancy of See also:sky effect. They were executed with his left hand, his right having in See also:early See also:life been injured by an See also:accident.
For an See also:account of the Nasmyth family see James Nasmyth's Autobiography (1883).
End of Article: NASMYTH, ALEXANDER (1758-1840)
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