About the museum
The story of the National Galleries of Scotland
The National Galleries of Scotland care for the national collection of fine art in Edinburgh, shown in the Scottish National Gallery on the Mound, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
The Scottish National Gallery opened in 1859 and holds European masters from Raphael and Titian to Velázquez, Vermeer and Monet, alongside the greatest collection of Scottish painting.
The collection
The Scottish National Gallery's collection includes Raphael's Bridgewater Madonna, Titian's Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (jointly owned with the National Gallery in London), Velázquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs and Vermeer's earliest known painting, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary.
The Scottish collection runs from Allan Ramsay and Henry Raeburn to the Glasgow Boys and William McTaggart, and the National Galleries also hold the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and two buildings of modern and contemporary art.
At ArtLogia you can order 112 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 81 artists led by David Wilkie, Allan Ramsay and Francis Grant.
- paintings to order
- 112
- artists
- 81
- art movements
- 17
- years covered
- 1418–1913
The building
The Scottish National Gallery's neoclassical building on the Mound was designed by William Henry Playfair and opened in 1859, beside his Royal Scottish Academy. An underground link, the Weston Link, joins the two buildings beneath Princes Street Gardens.
Masterpieces to see
The Monarch of the GlenEdwin Landseer, 1851 · Hand-painted reproduction available
Old Woman Frying EggsGiorgione, 1506 · Hand-painted reproduction available
Christ in the House of Martha and MaryJohannes Vermeer, 1650 · Hand-painted reproduction available
The Skating MinisterHenry Raeburn, 1795 · Hand-painted reproduction available
Planning a visit
The gallery on the Mound sits between the Old and New Towns, a short walk from Princes Street and Waverley Station.
