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Keywords: PG 1063Burns Naysmith.jpg Artwork en 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 1787 painting Institution Scottish National Portrait Gallery http //www nationalgalleries org/collection/artists-a-z/N/3547/artistName/Alexander 20Nasmyth/recordId/1962 other versions PD-old-100 Alexander Nasmyth Paintings in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery 1787 Portraits of Robert Burns 1787 portrait paintings from Great Britainm Male 18th-century oil oval portraits of men at bust length 1787 18th-century portrait paintings in the United Kingdom 1787 Uploaded with UploadWizard
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