Charlotte Nasmyth

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,

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. She painted mainly in oils, and sometimes in watercolours, "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,

Charlotte died in Putney, Surrey, in 1884. 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).

Selected works Highland Pass A Wooded Landscape with Travellers on a Path View in Essex Derwent Water Mill at Barton, Lancashire Cottage in Epping Forest Marlow lock from Cookham Dean Rome.