National Galleries Scotland: Portrait is an

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on Queen Street,

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. Portrait holds the national collections of

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s, all of which are of, but not necessarily by, Scots. It also holds the Scottish National Photography Collection. Since 1889 it has been housed in its red

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building, designed by

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and built between 1885 and 1890 to accommodate the gallery and the museum collection of the

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. The building was donated by John Ritchie Findlay, owner of ''

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'' newspaper. In 1985 the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland was amalgamated with the Royal Scottish Museum, and later moved to Chambers Street as part of the

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. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery expanded to take over the whole building, and reopened on 1 December 2011 as “Portrait” after being closed since April 2009 for the first comprehensive refurbishment in its history, carried out by Page\Park Architects. Portrait is part of National Galleries Scotland, a public body that also owns the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the

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in Edinburgh.

History

The

was founded in 1780 by

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. Its members donated items of interest, and in 1781 it bought a place to properly store this material, the Antiquarian Society Hall, located between the

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and Parliament Close, just to the west of Old Fishmarket Close, as shown on Alexander Kincaid's ''Plan of the City''. It moved several times, from 1826 it rented space in the

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at the foot of The Mound, owned by the Board of Manufactures. By 1851 its collections were in 24 George Street, in November it agreed with the Board to make the collections National Property, with the government to provide continuing accommodation for the collections and for the Society's meetings. As part of the agreement, the collections moved back to the Royal Institution in 1858. Erskine had also formed a collection of Scottish portraits in the late 18th century, many are now in the museum. When the

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, was established in 1856 and became very successful, the Scottish historian

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was among those calling for a Scottish equivalent, but the government was reluctant to commit to funding the project.Press, "Facts and Statistics" and "The History of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery"
History & Architecture
, NGS In 1882 John Ritchie Findlay endowed a new building on Queen Street, costing £50,000, designed by

to accommodate both the antiquities collections and the portraits. It was completed in 1890. At the centre of the facade of the symmetrical building, a large Main Hall formed a shared entrance to the two institutions. Portrait occupied the east wing of the building, and the Museum of Antiquities took up the west wing. The portrait gallery was established in 1882, before its new building was completed. The London National Portrait Gallery was the first such separate museum in the world, however it did not move into its current purpose-built building until 1896, making the Edinburgh gallery the first in the world to be specially built as a portrait gallery.Press, "The History of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery"
History & Architecture
, NGS Special national portrait galleries remain a distinct Anglophone speciality, with the other more recent examples in

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(1968),

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(1998), and Ottawa, Canada (2001) not so far copied in other countries. The famous collection of portraits housed in the Vasari Corridor in

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remains only accessible to the public on a limited basis. The building was opened in 1889 under curator John Miller Gray. Over the years new facilities such as a shop and café were added in a piecemeal fashion, and the galleries rearranged and remodelled, generally reducing the clarity of the layout of the building, and often the ceiling height, as well as blocking off many windows. The building was shared with the National Museum of Antiquities, which latterly became the

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and moved to a new building in 2009, at which point the long-planned refurbishment of the portrait gallery could begin, with funding from the

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and the

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, amongst others. The work generally restores the gallery spaces to their original layout, with areas set aside for education, the shop & café, and a new glass lift—greatly improving access for disabled visitors. In total Portrait has 60% more gallery space after the changes, and at the reopening displayed 849 works, of which 480 were by Scots. The cost of the refurbishment was £17.6 million. The entire building comprises 5672 Sq. metres.

The building

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. It was designed by

in the

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style with a combination of

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and 13th-century Gothic influences, and is a

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. Built between 1885 and 1890, the building is noted for its ornate Spanish Gothic style, an unusual addition to Edinburgh's mostly Georgian Neoclassical

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. The windows are in carved pointed arches and the main entrance on the Queen Street front, surrounded a large gabled arch, leads to the main entrance hall, arcaded with pointed arches, which originally served both the National Portrait Gallery to its east, and the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland to its west. A distinctive feature of the gallery is its four octagonal corner towers topped with crocketed Gothic

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s; originally, Anderson had intended to flank the facade with a pair of large Franco-Scottish tourelles, but these were replaced at the request of the benefactor by the pointed turrets seen today. Anderson's design was influenced by a number of other Gothic and Gothic Revival architectural works, in particular the rectangular Gothic

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and the works of

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, and similarities have also been drawn between the Portrait Gallery and Anderson's Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute, which he designed for the 3rd Marquess of Bute in the late 1870s. Around the exterior are sculpted figures of noted Scots set in niches, designed by William Birnie Rhind. These were added in the 1890s to compensate for the lack of contemporary portraits of medieval Scots in the gallery's collection at the time, as was the large processional

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inside the main entrance hall, painted by William Hole. This mural, added in 1898, depicts an array of notable Scots from history, ranging from Saint Ninian to

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. Figures were added to the frieze over the years after the gallery opened, and Hole added further large mural narrative scenes on the 1st floor later.

Collection

The museum's collection totals some 3,000 paintings and sculptures, 25,000 prints and drawings, and 38,000 photographs. The collection essentially begins in the Renaissance, initially with works mainly by foreign artists of Scottish royalty, nobility, and mainly printed portraits of clergymen and writers; the most notable paintings were mostly made on the Continent (often during periods of exile from the turbulent Scottish political scene). As in England, the

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all but extinguished religious art, and until the 19th century portrait painting dominated Scottish painting, with patrons gradually extending down the social scale. In the 16th century most painted portraits are of royalty or the more important nobility; the oldest work in the collection is a portrait of

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from 1507. The collection includes two portraits of

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, although neither dates from her lifetime; one was painted some 20 years after her death in 1587, and the other is later still; there are also a number of 19th-century paintings showing scenes from her life. Mary's circle is actually better represented by portraits from the life, with her three husbands all having portraits, including Darnley by

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and an unknown painter, and miniatures from 1566 of

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and his first wife. There is a portrait of Mary's nemesis, Regent Morton, by Arnold Bronckhorst who was from 1581 the first artist to hold the title of "King's Painter" in Scotland, though he only spent about three years there. The gallery holds several works by Bronckhorst and his successor, Adrian Vanson; both were skilled painters in the

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tradition. The collection includes portraits by Bronckhorst and Vanson of

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, but the others were made after he succeeded to the English throne and moved to London, where the many portraits of other Stuart monarchs were also mostly painted. The first significant native Scot to be a portrait painter,

George Jamesone George Jamesone (or Jameson) (c. 1587 – 1644) was a Scottish painter who is regarded as Scotland's first eminent portrait-painter. Early years He was born in Aberdeen, where his father, Andrew Jamesone, was a stonemason. His mother was Marj ...

(1589/90-1644) only once got the chance to paint his monarch, when Charles I visited Edinburgh in 1633. The collection includes two Jamesone self-portraits and portraits of the Scottish aristocracy, as well as some imagined portraits of heroes of Scotland's past. There are three portraits by Jamesone's talented pupil

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and ten aristocratic portraits by Sir

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, the last "King's Painter" before the

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, self-portrait, 1698 The display "Blazing with Crimson: Tartan Portraits" (until December 2013) concentrates on portraits featuring

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, which begin to be painted in the late 17th century, at that time apparently with no political connotations. The museum has one of the earliest examples, a full-length portrait of 1683 by John Michael Wright of Lord Mungo Murray, son of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, wearing a belted plaid for hunting. The wearing of tartan was banned after the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, but reappears in grand portraits after a few decades, before becoming ever more popular with

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and the works of

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. Also wearing tartan is Flora MacDonald, painted by Richard Wilson in London after her arrest for helping

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to escape after the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. Scottish portrait painting flourished in the 18th century and Allan Ramsay and Sir

Henry Raeburn Sir Henry Raeburn (; 4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland. Biography Raeburn was born the son of a manufacturer in Stockbridge, on the Water of Leith: a f ...

are well represented with 13 and 15 works respectively, the former with many paintings of figures from the Scottish Enlightenment, as well as the recently acquired

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, and the career of the latter extending into the 19th century with portraits of Walter Scott and others. The museum owns the iconic portrait of

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. The largest number of works by a single artist is the 58 by the sculptor and gem-cutter

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(1735–1799), who developed a distinctive format of large fired glass paste (or

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"medallion" portraits in profile, initially modelled in wax. His subjects include

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, James Beattie and

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. Adam disliked having his portrait taken but Tassie was a member of his social circle he did not refuse, with the result that, as with the Naysmyth portrait of Burns, almost all images of Smith derive from the exemplar in the museum. File:Wilson - Flora MacDonald.jpg, Richard Wilson, Flora MacDonald, 1747 File:David Hume 2.jpg, Allan Ramsay,

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, 1822 The later 19th century in Scotland had no such dominant figures, but many fine artists, and saw the beginning of photography. The museum devotes a gallery to the photographs of

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life taken by Thomas Annan, especially the images of slums taken in 1868–71, and in general the displays concentrate on the common people of Scotland. The collection continues to expand in the present day, with Scottish painters such as John Bellany (

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, self-portrait and Billy Connolly) and John Byrne, whose works include images of himself, Tilda Swinton, Billy Connolly and

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* Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, by Oskar Kokoschka * Winnie Ewing by Norman Edgar *

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by David Mach * Ian Wilmut by Wendy McMurdo * Robin Jenkins by Jennifer McRae

Notes

References

*"Portrait"; ''Portrait of the Nation, An Introduction to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery'', (no author given), 2011, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, *"Press"; Press pack for the reopening in December 2011

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