FOLLOWER OF ALEXANDER NASMYTH  View on the River Almond, near Edinburgh, with Almondell Bridge oil on canvas 27 x 38 1/8 in. (68.6 x 96.8 cm.) PROVENANCE: J.A.L. Petit, Leamington Spa, 1982. Hawthorne Family (according to an inscription on the reverse) After the picture of 1811 in a Private Collection. Almondell Bridge was in fact designed by Alexander Nasmyth himself. The Hon. Henry Erskine (1746-1817), a Whig lawyer and politician, commissioned him to design the bridge in 1810.