NASMUTH, Patrick, an eminent artist, was the eldest son of the preceding, and was born in Edinburgh in 1786. Like several others of his gifted family, he took to the pencil instinctively at a very early age. His right hand was shortly afterwards damaged by an accident. But its cunning was soon acquired by the left. The almost exclusive attention which he bestowed upon his art speedily rendered him a proficient. Fixing his abode in London at the age of twenty, he plied his pencil in landscape-painting with great vigour and success. The style of his father, which he had adopted, was much improved by the greater warmth of his colouring. His subjects were sometimes Scottish scenery, but he was more successful in representing the placid brooks and rich meadow-landscapes of England. The careful minuteness of detail in some of his pictures was especially admired, and acquired for him the surname of "the English Hobbema." Stimulated by growing popularity, Nasmyth prosecuted his art as enthusiastically as ever. With a reckless ardour he continued to pursue his studies in the open country, under the most inclement weather, until he fell into a decline. As he lay dying in his lodgings in South Lambeth, on the 17th August 1831, a terrific thunder-storm passed over the city. He desired to be raised in bed that he might look on it. Before the thunder had rolled away he had expired.