The below is transcribed from a book entitled:

Modern Painters and their Paintings
For the use of schools and learners in Art

By:  Sarah Tytler, Author of "The Old Masters"
Published by:  Roberts Brothers, Boston - 1884 - University Press: John Wilson & Son - Cambridge, MA

Pages 152 and 153;

    Patrick Nasmyth was born in 1787 in Edinburgh.  His father, a pupil of Allan Ramsay's, was a good landscape painter.

    The young Nasmyth early played truant from school to stroll and sketch in the fields.  What education he consented to receive was had in his father's studio.  From an accident received in boyhood to his right hand, he painted with his left hand.  Another youthful misfortune was an illness which resulted in deafness.  Thus disabled and thrown in upon himself, with a tendency to take refuge from his isolation in excess and low company, Nasmyth came to London when he was in his twentieth year, and immediately attracted notice by his works.  The first which he exhibited at the Royal Academy was a romantic Scotch subject, 'Loch Katrine,' but it was by English subjects of the homeliest and most familiar rustic life that he won his name as a painter.  These lanes and hedgerows, bits of commons, and village streets, with the dwarf oak in its 'contorted limbs and scrubby foliage, in preference to other trees,' were the subjects which he painted with felicitous Dutch relish, as well as accuracy, which procured for him the somewhat cockney sobriquet of the 'English Hobbema.'  Not unlike Morland in his tastes, Nasmyth was not unlike the English painter in a corrupted nature and miserable fate.  He was reduced to paint merely to supply his necessities, painting to the last attack of influenza, of which he died in the middle of a thunder-storm, that he was raised up in bed at his own request to watch.  His death occurred in 1831, when Nasmyth was but in his forty-sixth year.

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Some of the art of Patrick Nasmyth
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A Horse and a Cart by a River with a view of a Distant Town - 1811 Oil on Canvas 510mm x 760mm signed and dated 1811 unknown location
A Warehouse Fire Pen and ink and ink wash on paper support 185mm x 228mm on paper, unique On display at the Tate Gallery, London
A Woodland Cottage Oil on Oak Panel 230mm x 180mm signed unknown location
Cottage and Barn Watercolour and gouache on paper support 134mm x 209mm on paper, unique On display at the Tate Gallery, London
Falls of the Tummell - 1816 support 165mm x 203mm painting signed On display at the Tate Gallery, London
Hyde Park - c1820 Engraving on paper, engraved by A. Willmore On display at the Guildhall Art Gallery, Imagebase, London
Lewes; A Church on a Hill Pencil on paper support 138mm x 196mm on paper, unique signed On display at the Tate Gallery, London
River and Trees Wood On display at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
The Angler's Nook - 1825 Oil on mahogany (Ow) support 302mm x 406mm painting signed On display at the Tate Gallery, London
The Meeting of the Avon and Severn - 1826 Oil on canvas On display at the Guildhall Art Gallery, Imagebase, London
View in Hampshire - 1826 Oil on canvas On display at the Guildhall Art Gallery, Imagebase, London
Unknown Title Oil on canvas In a private collection of a Naesmyth family member
Watermill at Carshalton - 1830 Oil on Panel On display at the Guildhall Art Gallery, Imagebase, London