Scottish National Gallery

The Scottish National Gallery (formerly the National Gallery of Scotland) is Scotland's national art gallery. It's on The Mound in central Edinburgh, near Princes Street. William Henry Playfair designed the neoclassical structure, which opened to the public in 1859. The gallery holds Scotland's national collection of fine art, which spans Scottish and worldwide art from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century. National Galleries of Scotland, a public body that also owns the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, manages the Scottish National Gallery.

A group of paintings transferred from the Royal Scottish Academy lies at the center of the National Gallery's collection. This comprises works by Jacopo Bassano, Anthony van Dyck, and Giambattista Tiepolo. A number of major large-scale canvases are on display in the Gallery's main ground floor rooms, including Benjamin West's Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag (1786), Rubens' The Feast of Herod (1633 or c.1637-38), and a pair of Titian paintings, Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (purchased jointly with the National Gallery, London). The Scottish National Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum have also bought one of Canova's statues of The Three Graces. The Scottish National Gallery has a notable collection of works by Scottish artists, including several landscapes by Alexander Nasmyth, and several works by Sir Henry Raeburn — of particular note are his portraits of Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell and Sir Walter Scott), and his celebrated painting, The Skating Minister. There are also a number of works by artists of the Glasgow School such as James Guthrie.

Detailed Information:

Address: The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL, Scotland, Europe

Phone Number: +44 131 624 6200

Website: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/visit/scottish-national-gallery

Open hours: Mon-Sun: 10:00–17:00