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A neo-Gothic palace dedicated to exploring various aspects of the Scottish story, this gallery is a hidden gem right at the heart of Edinburgh. The art tells you stories of the land and its people, through the medium of imagery. Meet with friends in the welcoming Café Portrait.
- Scottish National Gallery
Explore the newly opened Scottish galleries where you can...
- Scottish National Gallery
- Overview
- Collioure (1905)
- Lake Thun and the Stockhorn Mountains (1910)
- Queen Anne (c. 1685)
- Sir James MacDonald and Sir Alexander MacDonald (c. 1749)
- David Hume (1766)
- John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll (1767)
- Robert Burns (1787)
- Sir Walter Scott (1822)
- Sir James Matthew Barrie (1904)
The National Galleries of Scotland are made up of the Scottish National Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and Scottish National Portrait Gallery, all in Edinburgh. The museums trace their history back to 1850, when construction began on the National Gallery. The paintings in this list are just a small fragment of the galleries’ collections, which includes a substantially more diverse group of artists than appear here. (And if you want to learn about five more of the galleries’ paintings, check out one more list.)
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
André Derain spent most of his childhood in the small French town of Chatou, close to Paris. Twenty years later he shared a studio there, above a disused restaurant, with his friend and fellow artist Maurice de Vlaminck. The two painters were highly influential on each other, utilizing a similarly bright palette, applied in rough dabs of color to o...
Lake Thun and the Stockhorn Mountains is one of a series of mountain landscapes near Lake Thun, produced late in the career of Ferdinand Hodler. From the mid-19th century, Switzerland began to experience industrial development and a tourist invasion, but nothing of this is seen in Hodler’s Swiss landscapes. As a Symbolist influenced by his reading ...
Born in Amsterdam, Willem Wissing trained in both The Hague and Paris. He became assistant to Sir Peter Lely on his arrival in London in 1676. After Lely’s death four years later, Wissing helped to finish Lely’s uncompleted portraits. Subsequently he became a fashionable portrait painter. He painted many portraits of members of the Stuart court, in...
William Mosman’s work is often described as part of the “Scottish Baroque” School of portraiture, alongside contemporary Scottish painters William Aikman, with whom Mosman studied briefly in the 1720s, and Allan Ramsay, who became one of the leading British portraitists of his day. Ramsay and Mosman produced the same kind of fashionably styled port...
Born in Edinburgh, portraitist Allan Ramsay studied in London under the Swedish painter Hans Hysing and at the St. Martin’s Lane Academy. He spent three years in Italy, where he worked under Francesco Solimena and Francesco Imperiali. He attracted attention with his full-length portrait of the duke of Argyll and numerous bust-portraits of Scottish ...
This portrait was commissioned and produced while Thomas Gainsborough was still based in Bath, prior to his move to London. He was nevertheless attracting an increasingly prestigious range of clients. For much of his career, Gainsborough maintained a fierce rivalry with Sir Joshua Reynolds. The two artists had very different approaches. Reynolds, w...
Alexander Nasmyth has been dubbed the “father of Scottish landscape painting,” but no other work he painted is as well known as this portrait of Scotland’s most famous poet. It was commissioned by Edinburgh publisher William Creech to adorn a new edition of Robert Burns’s poems in 1787, but Burns and Nasmyth were already good friends before the sit...
Largely self-taught, Scottish painter Sir Henry Raeburn was initially apprenticed to a goldsmith; his marriage to a wealthy widow in 1780 allowed him to pursue his career as an artist. By the late 1780s, he was considered the foremost portrait painter of the country, and he was responsible for painting some of the most influential Scottish figures ...
Sir William Nicholson worked in portraiture and theatrical design in the early 20th century. In 1904 he designed sets and costumes for the first stage production of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in London. It was then that Barrie agreed, with some reluctance, to sit for his portrait. It is an extraordinarily downbeat presentation of a writer then at the ...
National Galleries Scotland: Portrait is an art museum on Queen Street, Edinburgh. Portrait holds the national collections of portraits, all of which are of, but not necessarily by, Scots. It also holds the Scottish National Photography Collection.
Explore the newly opened Scottish galleries where you can encounter the very best of Scottish art from 1800 to 1945. Marvel at spectacular views over Edinburgh and discover the work of pioneering artists such as William McTaggart, Anne Redpath, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Boys.
Discover more details about Scottish National Portrait Gallery including opening times, photos and more. Visit one of Edinburgh’s most iconic buildings and explore a fascinating overview of Scotland past and present though a wealth of imagery encompassing painting, photography, sculpture and film.
- 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JD, City Of Edinburgh
Your national collection of Scottish art is the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. Our definition of Scottish art is broad, and embraces artworks and artists with a varied range of associations with this country – from the artist’s heritage to the subject of the work.
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is one of Edinburgh’s most remarkable buildings – a great red sandstone neo-gothic palace which sits proudly on the city’s skyline. The Gallery was...
