
Biography
Born
1798
Died
1874
Nationality
Scottish
Anne Gibson Nasmyth was born in Edinburgh, one of six daughters of the painter Alexander Nasmyth. Anne, along with her sisters and five brothers, was taught to paint in a training school which her father had established. She learned to paint landscape scenes and exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Hibernian Academy, and the Royal Scottish Academy. Anne and her sisters spent time in Manchester, Scotland and London where she eventually settled with her husband.