Robert burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet 1787. This half-length portrait of burns, framed within an oval, has become the most well-known and widely reproduced image of the famous scottish poet. Nasmyth's painting, commissioned by the publisher william creech, was to be engraved for a new edition of burn's poems. He is shown fashionably dressed against a landscape, evoking his rural background in alloway, ayrshire. Burns and nasmyth had become good friends, having been introduced to one another in edinburgh by a mutual patron, patrick miller of dalswinton. Nasmyth, pleased to have recorded burns' likeness convincingly, decided to leave the painting in a slightly unfinished state. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1787. Dimensions: height: 38.4 cm (15.1 in) ; width: 32.4 cm (12.7 in). Medium: painting. Depicted People: Robert Burns. Collection: Scottish National Portrait Gallery. PG 1063Burns Naysmith
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