Charlotte Nasmyth

Quick Facts

Intro

Scottish painter

Places

United Kingdom Scotland

was

Painter

Work field

Arts

Gender

Female

Birth

1804

Place of birth

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Death

1884

Place of death

Putney, London Borough of Wandsworth, Greater London, United Kingdom

Age

80 years

Family

Father:

Alexander Nasmyth

Siblings:

James Nasmyth Patrick Nasmyth Jane Nasmyth Barbara Nasmyth Elizabeth Nasmyth Margaret Nasmyth Anne Nasmyth

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Charlotte Nasmyth (17 February 1804-26 July 1884) was a Scottish painter whose works were regarded at the time as "gems", and which are now included in the collections of the Scottish National Gallery and other museums.

Biography

Charlotte was born in St Andrew's parish, Edinburgh, one of eleven children, including six daughters, of Alexander Nasmyth, the "foremost landscape artist of his day".

Charlotte, in common with her siblings Patrick, Jane, Barbara, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Anne, worked as a studio assistant to her father in Edinburgh, and also taught art classes. After the death of their father in 1840, his legacy and an auction of 155 of the family's paintings gave the Nasmyth sisters financial independence, and enabled them move to England. Between 1831 and 1866, Charlotte exhibited her romantic landscapes and other works at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Academy, and other institutions. She painted mainly in oils, and sometimes in watercolours, and also produced some etchings. Her subjects include landscapes of north Wales and various regions of England, as well as Scotland, indicating that she travelled widely throughout Britain. She was the most prolific artist of the six sisters. Modern writers have described her as "the most flamboyant and wildest", working "with a greater freedom and panache than her sisters". Contemporary reviewers described Charlotte's paintings as "little gems", "delicious small-room pictures ... meant to .. form the individual treasure of some limited sphere of its own." Gnarled tree trunks with broken branches were a favourite subject of Charlotte's, and a reviewer in 1866 wrote of one of her landscapes, "This is the finest bit of tree painting in the exhibition; vigorous, crisp, and beautiful in colour."

Charlotte died in Putney, Surrey, in 1884.

A portrait of Charlotte by William Nicholson is in the collection of the National Galleries Scotland, and another by Andrew Geddes is in the British Museum.

Works

Works by Charlotte are held by the Scottish National Gallery, the British Museum, the University of Dundee Fine Art Collections, Alloa Tower (the National Trust for Scotland), and Hill Top and the Beatrix Potter Gallery (the National Trust).