Margaret Nasmyth
Margaret Nasmyth was a Scottish landscape painter.
Early life
Margaret Nasmyth was born on 11 April 1791 in Hill Street, St Andrew's parish, Edinburgh, into the distinguished Nasmyth family of painters and art teachers. Her father Alexander Nasmyth and six of her siblings—Jane, Barbara, Elizabeth, Anne, Charlotte, and Patrick—were all notable artists.Style
Margaret imitated her father in style, but like Barbara she also practiced the more detailed, minute brushwork of her brother Patrick. Margaret left her father's house in 1836 to dwell with her brothers James and George, at Green Lane House, Patricroft, Manchester. She did not exhibit until 1841 at the age of fifty, by which date the whole family had come to live with James, when presumably she had more leisure time to devote to painting.She travelled widely, drawing subjects from across Scotland, Cumberland, Lancashire, north Wales, Shropshire, Westmorland, Cheshire, Blackford Heath, and Chigwell, Essex.
Exhibits
She exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute.She died at Stanhope Villas on 3 November 1869.