Charlotte was born in
St Andrew's parish,
Edinburgh, one of eleven children, including six daughters, of
Alexander Nasmyth, Charlotte, in common with her siblings
Patrick,
Jane,
Barbara,
Margaret,
Elizabeth, and
Anne, worked as a studio assistant to her father in Edinburgh, and also taught art classes. After the death of their father in 1840, his legacy and an auction of 155 of the family's paintings gave the Nasmyth sisters financial independence, and enabled them move to England. She painted mainly in oils, and sometimes in watercolours, "delicious small-room pictures ... meant to .. form the individual treasure of some limited sphere of its own." Gnarled tree trunks with broken branches were a favourite subject of Charlotte's, Charlotte died in Putney, Surrey, in 1884. is in the British Museum. == Works ==