John Thomson of Duddingston
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Rev John Thomson FRSE HonRSA was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland and noted amateur landscape painter. He was the minister of Duddingston Kirk from 1805 to 1840.
John Thomson by Henry Raeburn
Loch-an-Eilean, Rothiemurchus, Inverness-shire, 1835, Tate Gallery
Thomson sketched while working outdoors by his friend, Thomas Dick Lauder, 1831, National Gallery of Scotland
Memorial window to Rev John Thomson, Duddingston Kirk
Alexander Nasmyth
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Alexander Nasmyth was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter, a pupil of Allan Ramsay. He also undertook several architectural commissions.
Portrait by Andrew Geddes, 1810
View of the City of Edinburgh, Yale Center for British Art
View of Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock
A View of Edinburgh from the West (1822–6)