Collection of National Gallery of Scotland


The National Galleries of Scotland include three sites in Edinburgh, the Scottish National Gallery, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.  The galleries are responsible for one of the world’s most superb collections of Western Art ranging from the Middle Ages to present day. 

The National Gallery of Scotland, designed by William Henry Playfair and completed in 1854, has a neo-classical edifice and stands on the Mound adjacent to the Royal Scottish Academy.  The Gallery is home to Scotland’s greatest collection of European paintings, drawings and prints from the early Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. 

The National Gallery is home to important works by Raphael, Tintoretto, Titian, Poussin, Vermeer, Claude Lorraine, Rembrandt, Reynolds, Van Gogh, Gainsborough, Chardin, Gauguin, Antonio Canova and Turner, as well as other French Impressionists, and Scottish artists.


1885 Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap Painting Head-of-a-Peasant-Woman-with-White-Cap
1888 Orchard in Blossom (Plum Trees) Painting Orchard-in-Blossom-(Plum-Trees)
1889 Olive Trees: Bright Blue Sky Painting Olive-Trees:-Bright-Blue-Sky





Enclosed Field with a Sower in the Rain Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges Field with Factory View of Saintes-Maries with Cemetery
Enclosed Field with a Sower in the Rain Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges Field with Factory View of Saintes-Maries with Cemetery
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures."