File:PG 1063Burns Naysmith.jpg

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Summary

Alexander Nasmyth: Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet

Artist



Description	Scottish painter
Date of birth/death	9 September 1758	10 April 1840
Location of birth/death	Edinburgh	Edinburgh
Work period	Romanticism era QS:P2348,Q37068
Work location	Haarlem; London (1799); Edinburgh (1803); Italy (1783–1784); Rome (1783–1784)
Authority file	: Q966180 VIAF: 64809910 ISNI: 000000006635032X ULAN: 500024566 LCCN: n87113260 WGA: n/nasmyth/alexande WorldCat

Title

Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

English: Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet 1787. This half-length portrait of Burns, framed within an oval, has become the most well-known and widely reproduced image of the famous Scottish poet. Nasmyth's painting, commissioned by the publisher William Creech, was to be engraved for a new edition of Burn's poems. He is shown fashionably dressed against a landscape, evoking his rural background in Alloway, Ayrshire. Burns and Nasmyth had become good friends, having been introduced to one another in Edinburgh by a mutual patron, Patrick Miller of Dalswinton. Nasmyth, pleased to have recorded Burns' likeness convincingly, decided to leave the painting in a slightly unfinished state.

Depicted people

Robert Burns

Date

1787

Medium

painting

Dimensions

height: 38.4 cm (15.1 in)

; width: 32.4 cm (12.7 in)

Collection

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

	Native name	Scottish National Portrait Gallery
	Parent institution	National Galleries of Scotland
	Location	1 Queen Street Edinburgh EH2 1JD United Kingdom
	Coordinates	55° 57′ 19.84″ N, 3° 11′ 36.99″ W
	Established	1889
	Website	nationalgalleries.org/visit/scottish-national-portrait-gallery
	Authority file	: Q2441562 VIAF: 149747786 ISNI: 0000000119575785 ULAN: 500219402 LCCN: n50048522 NLA: 36129573 WorldCat

Current location

National Galleries Scotland

Accession number

PG 1063 (National Galleries Scotland)

References

Source/Photographer

http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/N/3547/artistName/Alexander%20Nasmyth/recordId/1962

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	09:42, 22 February 2020	4,448 × 5,448 (4.39 MB)	Materialscientist	crop
	10:40, 15 February 2018	5,333 × 6,556 (7.06 MB)	Opencooper	higher res from same source.
	12:15, 10 December 2011	450 × 558 (41 KB)	Johnbod