Biography

Anne Gibson Nasmyth was born in Edinburgh, one of seven daughters of the painter Alexander Nasmyth. Anne, along with her sisters and four brothers, was taught to paint in a private art school which her father had established. She learned to paint landscape scenes and exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. Anne and her sisters spent time in Manchester, Scotland and London where she eventually settled after marriage.