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Lot 181
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Alexander Nasmyth 1758-1840

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alexander Nasmyth
  • A family picnic in front of Loch Leven Castle, Kinross
  • signed l.r.: Alex Nasmyth and inscribed on the reverse: Painted by Alex Nasmyth/of Edinburgh
  • oil on panel, in its original frame

Provenance

Acquired by the artist's family;

William Cox, by whom sold, Christie's, 15th February 1884, lot 349, bt. Colnaghi for 3½ gns. (as Stirling Castle)

Catalogue Note

Located in Kinross, Loch Leven Castle is one of the county's best known monuments. The castle consists of a fourteenth-century tower, as well as a smaller round tower in which Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned, and from which she escaped with the aid of the Governor's son. The original entrance was by movable ladder to a door on the second floor.