ALEXANDER NASMYTH (SCOTTISH 1758-1840) DRUMTOCHTY CASTLE ON LUTHER WATER Oil on canvas

(63.5cm x 91cm (25in x 36in))

Literature: Peter Johnson and Ernle Money, The Nasmyth Family of Painters, Leigh-on-Sea, 1977, pl.19 J. C. B. Cooksey, Alexander Nasmyth 1785-1840: A Man of the Scottish Renaissance, 1991, reference Q29, Ill, p.107 Note: Drumtochty Castle was built by Gillespie Graham and possibly John Smith of Aberdeen at a cost of £30,000 for Nasmyth's early patron, the banker George Drummond. It was inhabited by 1813. Cooksey dates the painting to c.1816-20 (op.cit.).