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Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

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 designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson as a shrine for Scotland’s heroes and heroines.
Location
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Founded in
1889

Permanent events

John Knox, Landscape with Tourists at Loch Katrine
The Age of Improvement
Permanent event
Francesco Trevisani, Prince James Francis Edward Stewart, 1688 - 1766. Son of James VII and II
Imagining Power
Permanent event

Past events

John Wonnacott, Sir Adam Thomson, b. 1926. Founder and chairman of British Caledonian Airway
The Modern Portrait
1 Aug 2017 — 27 Oct 2019
George P. Lewis & Peter Cattrell, Preparing cloths for the filter presses, Glebe Sugar Refinery, Greenock
Heroes and Heroines
1 Aug 2017 — 31 May 2019
Unknown, George, 5th Lord Seton (about 1531 - 1585), aged 27
Reformation to Revolution
1 Aug 2017 — 1 Apr 2019
Allan Ramsay, The Artist's Wife: Margaret Lindsay of Evelick, c 1726 - 1782
Scots in ltaly
1 Aug 2017 — 3 Mar 2019
Graham MacIndoe, Untitled from the series Coming Clean
Graham MacIndoe
1 Aug — 5 Nov 2017
Gerard Jefferson-Lewis, Untitled (Butcher Boys) Portrait Number 472
Looking Good
1 Aug — 1 Oct 2017
David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson. Edinburgh Ale: James Ballantine, Dr George Bell and David Octavius Hil
A Perfect Chemistry
1 Aug — 1 Oct 2017
Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Royal Burgh Standard Bearer Martin Rodgerson and his Burleymen attendants, Three Brethren cairns summit, during the Common Riding festivities in Selkirk, Scotland, 2013 from the series Unsullied and Untarnished © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Document Scotland
Document Scotland
26 Sep 2015 — 24 Apr 2016
Lee Miller (1907-77), Pablo Picasso and Lee Miller after the liberation of Paris, Rue de Grand Augustins, Paris, France, 1944, Photographer: Lee Miller, Negative Number: NC0002-1, Notes: DF VB>BW © Lee Miller Archives, England 2015. All rights reserved
Lee Miller and Picasso
23 May — 6 Sep 2015
Henry Lintott RSA (1877-1965), Avatar, 1916, Oil on canvas, Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture (Diploma Collection), ‘Conserved with the aid of a grant from the AIM Pilgrim Trust Conservation Scheme’
Remembering the Great War
4 Aug 2014 — 5 Jul 2015 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Paris Bordon, Venetian Women at their Toilet, about 1545, Oil on canvas: 97.00 x 141.00 cm, Scottish National Gallery
Beauty by Design
15 Nov 2014 — 3 May 2015 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
The American Boy, 1971, Oil on board, Size 21 x 24 cm, Glasgow Life (Glasgow Museums) on behalf of Glasgow City Council, © John Byrne / Bridgeman images
John Byrne: Sitting Ducks
14 Jun — 19 Oct 2014 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
John Ruskin, Blenheim Orange Apple c.1873, Watercolour and bodycolour on heavyweight white wove watercolour paper; 11.7 x 16.5 cm (sight), Private collection
John Ruskin: Artist and Observer
4 Jul — 28 Sep 2014 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Choir Master, Rosie Hallam, 2012, © Rosie Hallam / Financial Times
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
1 Mar — 14 Jun 2014 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Alexander (Sandy) Moffat, Poets' Pub (Norman MacCaig, Sorley MacLean, Hugh MacDiarmid, Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown, Sidney Goodsir Smith, Edwin Morgan, Robert Garioch, Alan Bold and John A. Tonge), 1980, oil on canvas: 183.00 x 244.00 cm, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The Modern Scot
1 Dec 2011 — 11 May 2014 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Ken Currie, Three Oncologists, 2002, oil on canvas: 195.58 x 243.84 cm, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Pioneers of Science
1 Dec 2011 — 11 May 2014 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Photograph from The Nation//Live – Civil War A participant with a banner at the site of Covenanters’ graves, Bad’s Knowe, Galloway, © National Galleries of Scotland and Atlas Arts 2013
The Nation // Live
5 Oct 2013 — 4 May 2014 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Man Ray, Catherine Deneuve, 1968, Private collection
Man Ray Portraits
22 Jun — 22 Sep 2013 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

55.95548
-3.19365
Queen Street, 1
Edinburgh EH2 1JD United Kingdom
+44 (0)13 16246200
www.nationalgalleries.org
Opening hours

Daily from 10am to 5pm
Thursday until 7pm

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