Keywords: PG 1063Burns Naysmithcrop.jpg en Scottish National Portrait Gallery 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 2011-12-10 Scottish National Portrait Gallery http //www nationalgalleries org/collection/artists-a-z/N/3547/artistName/Alexander 20Nasmyth/recordId/1962 Creator Alexander Nasmyth PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Paintings in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery Portraits of Robert Burns Details of paintings Alexander Nasmyth |