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National Gallery of Scotland

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National Gallery of Scotland

Edinburgh art gallery housing the Scottish national collection of old master paintings, opened in 1859. It consists of European and English works from the period 1400–1900, together with a representative collection of Scottish paintings. An important loan of pictures from the Duke of Sutherland includes works by Raphael, Titian, and Rembrandt. The Department of Prints and Drawings contains the Vaughan Bequest, a notable group of Turner watercolours.

Other major works include paintings by Verrocchio (the Ruskin Madonna), El Greco, Rubens, Velázquez, Tiepolo, Watteau, Gainsborough, Constable, Monet, Seurat, and Gauguin, and by the Scottish artists Allan Ramsay, Henry Raeburn, and David Wilkie. In addition, there is a large collection of Scottish drawings, and prints by Dürer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Goya, and Delacroix.

The gallery is one of the three National Galleries of Scotland, administered by one director under a single board of trustees; the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art are also in Edinburgh.



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