National Gallery of Scotland

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The National Gallery of Scotland viewed from the south in front of the Royal Scottish Academy and Princes Street

The National Gallery of Scotland, viewed from the north

The Entrance of National Gallery of Scotland

The National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh, is the national art gallery of Scotland. An elaborate neoclassical edifice, it stands on The Mound, between the two sections of Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. The building, which was designed by William Henry Playfair, first opened to the public in 1859.

The National Gallery shares the Mound with the Royal Scottish Academy Building. In 1912 both were remodelled by William Thomas Oldrieve. When it re-opened the gallery concentrated on building its permanent collection of Scottish and European art for the nation.

The archive and study facilities at the National Gallery include the Prints and Drawings Collection of over 30,000 works on paper, from the early Renaissance to the late nineteenth century; and the reference-only research library, which is available to the general public. The library covers the period from 1300 to 1900 and holds approximately 50,000 volumes of books, journals, slides, photographs and microfiches, as well as archived material relating to the collections, exhibitions and history of the National Gallery.

The Playfair Project, an underground interconnection between the two buildings, opened on 4 August 2004. This contains a lecture theatre, education area, shop, restaurant and an interactive, touch-screen IT Gallery showing the collections of the National Galleries. Between the two buildings is a modern square, affording views of Edinburgh Castle and Princes Street.

1 Collection
2 Reference
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Collection

"Montagne Sainte-Victoire" by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

"Mrs Robert Scott Moncrieff" by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)

"The Lomellini Family" by Van Dyck (1599-1641)

"Madonna and Child" by Don Lorenzo Monaco (1370-1425)

At the heart of the National Gallery's collection is a group of paintings transferred from the Royal Scottish Academy Building. This includes masterpieces by Jacopo Bassano, Van Dyck and Giambattista Tiepolo. The National Gallery did not receive its own purchase grant until 1903.^[1]

Key works of art displayed at the National Gallery include:

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo and Design for a Papal Monument
Sandro Botticelli, Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child
Antonio Canova, The Three Graces (displayed on rotation with the Victoria and Albert Museum in London)
Paul Cézanne, The Big Trees and Montagne Sainte-Victoire
Jean Siméon Chardin, Vase of Flowers
John Constable, Dedham Vale
Gerard David, Three Legends of St Nicholas
Edgar Degas, Portrait of Diego Martelli
Antoon van Dyck, The Lomellini Family
Thomas Gainsborough, The Hon. Mrs Graham
Paul Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon
Hugo van der Goes, The Trinity Altarpiece (on loan from the Royal Collection)
Francisco de Goya, El Medico
El Greco, Fábula
Gavin Hamilton, Dawkins and Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra
Dominique Ingres, Mlle Albertine Hayard
Claude Monet, Haystacks
Nicolas Poussin, The Seven Sacraments
Sir Henry Raeburn, The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch
Allan Ramsay, Margaret Lindsay
Raphael, Bridgewater Madonna
Rembrandt van Rijn, A Woman in Bed and Self-Portrait
Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Ladies Waldegrave
Pieter Jansz Saenredam, San Bavo, Haarlem
Georges Seurat, La Luzerne, St-Denis
Titian, Venus Anadyomene, Diana and Callisto, Diana and Actaeon, The Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint, and The Three Ages of Man
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Somer Hill and the Vaughan Bequest of 38 works
Diego Velázquez, An Old Woman Cooking Eggs
Johannes Vermeer, Jan Christ in the House of Mary and Martha
Antoine Watteau, Fêtes venetiènnes