View of Bristol is an 1827 landscape painting by the British artist Patrick Nasmyth.Johnson & Money p.58Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Staffordshire. Public Catalogue Foundation, 2007. p.305 It depicts a panoramic view of the port city of Bristol and River Avon in the West of England. Seen from the nearby countryside it emphasises its picturesque characters rather than its industrial base. The city and its surroundings were frequently featured in Regency era paintings by members of the Bristol School, although Nasmyth was not involved with the group. A Scottish-born artist, son of the celebrated painter Alexander Nasmyth, he specialised in landscapes across Britain before his death from pneumonia in 1831.https://www.blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/WAGMU_OP88 Today the painting is in the collection of the Wolverhampton Art Gallery in the West Midlands, bequeathed by Maria Christiana Cartwright in 1887.https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/view-of-bristol-19520
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Bibliography Johnson, Peter & Money, Ernie. The Nasmyth family of painters. F. Lewis, 1977.