Lindsay Margaret Errington is a Scottish

art historian Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Traditionally, the ...

and former keeper for over 20 years at the

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, Edinburgh, where she worked to establish a representative collection of

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Early life

Lindsay Errington was born in Edinburgh and trained as a painter at the

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in London but did not follow that as a career. She studied art history at the

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and later completed a PhD thereAmbassador for Scotland's art heritage.
''The Herald'', originally published 2 February 1989. Retrieved 2 July 2017. on the subject of "Social and religious themes in English Art" (1973). It was published in book form by Garland in 1984 in their Outstanding theses from the Courtauld Institute of Art series.

Career

Errington taught at the Newcastle College of Art but did not find the work to her liking, preferring to be in Scotland, and was appointed to a curatorial post at the National Gallery of Scotland in 1972, only the second woman to hold such a post. She was asked to look after the Scottish paintings, which her male colleagues did not think an honour, but which she was delighted to do. She was at the gallery for over 20 years where she worked to establish a representative collection of

and produced many of the monographs on Scottish artists in the Scottish Masters series. In 1988-89 she was

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at the

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when she was the first Slade professor to lecture on Scottish art. In 2017, Errington published her most recent book, ''Private Views'', which featured images from the National Gallery's collection with verses composed in response to them.

Selected publications

*''The Artist and the Kirk''. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1979. *''Sir William Quiller Orchardson, 1832-1910''. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1980. *''Social and religious themes in English Art 1840-1860''. Garland, New York, 1984. (Outstanding theses from the Courtauld Institute of Art series) *''Alexander Carse''. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1987. (Scottish Masters No. 2) *''David Wilkie, 1785-1841''. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1988. (Scottish Masters No. 10) *''William McTaggart 1835-1910''. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1989. *''Scotland's pictures: The national collection of Scottish art''. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1990. *''Robert Herdman, 1829-1888''. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1998. (Scottish Masters No. 5) *''Private Views: Eight poems on paintings in the Scottish National Gallery''. XX Press, Edinburgh, 2017.Private Views Lindsay Errington.
National Gallery of Scotland. Retrieved 2 July 2017.

References

External links

Social and Religious Themes in English Art 1840 – 1860 by Lindsay Errington Part I.
a commentary by Madeleine Emerald Thiele. {{DEFAULTSORT:Errington, Lindsay Scottish art historians Curators from Edinburgh Academics of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art Year of birth missing (living people) Living people