Patrick Nasmyth (1787 - 1831) 

• Was a Scottish landscape painter.
• He was the eldest son of the artist Alexander Nasmyth.
• Nasmyth was one of the eleven children of Barbara and Alexander Nasmyth of Edinburgh.

• His six sisters, Jane, Barbara, Margaret, Elizabeth, Anne, and Charlotte, were notable artists.

• His younger brother, James, was a prominent engineer who invented the steam hammer.

• Nasmyth was born in Edinburgh and was named after his father's patron, Patrick Miller.

• As a teenager Nasmyth lost the use of his right hand following an accident, forcing him to learn how to paint with his left.

• He also lost most of his hearing through illness. 

• Much of Nasmyth's work, a great deal of which is undated, depicts his native Scotland, which he continued to paint even after moving to London in 1810.

• Nasmyth died of pneumonia-like symptoms, which he contracted shortly after painting a scene just outside London. 

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