Scottish painter, member of a large family of portrait and landscape painters. He was the eldest son of Alexander Nasmyth. He was influenced by Romantic ideas of landscape, but, after settling in London on 1810, he turned to Dutch sources such as Hobbema and Ruisdael, as in his New Forest (1815, Tate Gallery, London) or Leigh Wood (1830, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge). //