Alexander Nasmyth Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"Loch Ness and Dochfour House"
Title: Loch Ness and Dochfour House
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 32 x 22 in | Image Size: 28 x 18 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
Alexander Nasmyth, artist and engineer, was born in Edinburgh, the son of architect and builder Michael Nasmyth. He studied at the high school in Edinburgh and was trained by his father to join the family business. However, instead Nasmyth took an apprenticeship with a house-painter in 1773, before briefly attending the drawing classes of Alexander Runciman the following year. After meeting the portrait painter Allan Ramsay, Nasmyth worked as an assistant in Ramsay’s London studio, before returning to Edinburgh in 1778 to establish himself as a portrait painter. He turned to landscape painting after spending time in Italy between 1782 and 1785 and became one of the chief founders of the Scottish picturesque landscape school.
In his landscapes he blended classical elements stemming from Claude with naturalistic observation and became the founder of the Scottish landscape tradition, influencing many younger painters.
He was a man of wide culture, interested in science as well as art. He worked as a stage designer and architectural consultant. One of his friends was the poet Robert Burns, whose portrait he painted against a romantic landscape background (this portrait hangs in the NPG, Edinburgh). Nasmyth had several artist sons and daughters, of whom the most important was his eldest child, Patrick. He worked mainly in London and achieved great popularity with his large output of landscapes in the manner of the 17th-century Dutch masters, earning the nickname ‘the English Hobbema’.
