Oil paint on oak
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Robert Vernon
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/patrick-nasmyth-397" aria-label="More by Patrick Nasmyth" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Patrick Nasmyth</a>
Landscape
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
adults
animals: birds
architecture
cottage
duck
figure
landscape
people
plants and flowers
pool
reed
residential
water: inland
wooded
<p>Patrick Nasmyth was the son of a landscape painter named Alexander. He had pioneered a specifically Scottish imagery in tune with resurgent Scots nationalism, but his son lived and worked in England and pursued a more formulaic route. Patrick’s often generalised landscapes were modelled on the seventeenth-century Dutch art favoured by collectors. They proved very popular.</p><p>Patrick’s brother, James, summed up the stock features of such pictures: ‘decayed pollard trees, old moss-grown orchards, combined with cottages and farmhouses in the most paintable state of decay, with tangled hedges and neglected fences overrun with vegetation.’</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint oak
1 April 2003 – 12 July 2004
2004-07-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-04-01
Images of Rural Life
Collection based display
Landscape
support: 298 × 391 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
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<span class="text16">Patrick Nasmyth was the son of a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> painter      named Alexander</span><span class="text0">. </span><span class="text14">He      had pioneered a specifically Scottish </span><span class="text16">imagery      in tune with resurgent Scots</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text14">nationalism, but his son lived and worked in England and pursued a      more </span><span class="text15">formulaic</span><span class="text14">
    route. Patrick’s often generalised</span><span class="text0">
    landscapes were modelled on the </span><span class="text14">seventeenth-century      Dutch art favoured by collectors. They proved very popular.</span><span class="text0">
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<span class="text0">Patrick’s brother, James, summed up the stock      features of such pictures: ‘decayed pollard trees, old moss-grown      orchards, </span><span class="text14">combined with cottages and farmhouses</span><span class="text0"> </span><span class="text14">in the most paintable state of      decay, with </span><span class="text0">tangled hedges and neglected fences      overrun with vegetation.’
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adults animals: birds architecture cottage duck figure landscape people plants and flowers pool reed residential water: inland wooded