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High Elms- Streatham Common- Nasmyth

7/1/2021

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On This Day 7 January 1787 the Scottish Landscape painter Patrick Nasmyth was born. He painted High Elms by Streatham Common

The eldest son to painter Alexander Nasmyth and one of eleven children of whom at least 8 were gifted artists.

His sisters Jane, Barbara, Elizabeth Anne and Charlotte were all painters who assisted their father

(J C B Cooksey)
John Brown writes:
"Although High Elms was a large house, it was well screened from the highway by tall trees and shrubs and I have never seen a full image of the building. However, the aforementioned sketch of the bottom of the Common does show a part of the building opposite the pond, and a painting made in 1827 from the top of Streatham Common shows the roof of the property. The house was demolished in the 1880s and the site is now occupied by a handsome terrace of late Victori- an shops called Bank Parade".
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