Joseph Nash I Joseph Nash the Elder was a British watercolourist and lithographer. Nash was a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours and exhibited his paintings there frequently.

He specialized in historic buildings and palaces, and published several lithographed albums, the most important of which was the monumental work “Mansions of England in Old Times” (1839-49). This four-volume book was very popular with his contemporaries, lithographs from it were printed in newspapers, and all this encouraged the public to visit museums and historical monuments more often.

In 1846, Joseph Nash lithographed “Eastern Sketches” by David Wilkie, and in 1848 – a series of views of Windsor Castle based on his own drawings. His only son, Joseph Nash the Younger, was a marine artist and a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.

He died at Hereford Road, Bayswater, London, on 19 December 1878, a few months after being awarded a civil list pension of £100.