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The Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is an art museum on Queen
Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, which holds the national collections of
portraits, all of which are of, but not necessarily by, Scots. In
addition it also holds the Scottish National Photography Collection.
Since 1889 it has been housed in its red sandstone Gothic revival
building, designed by Robert Rowand Anderson and built between 1885
and 1890, donated by John Ritchie Findlay, owner of The Scotsman
newspaper.
The building is in red sandstone from Corsehill, Dumfriesshire, with a combination of Arts and Crafts and
13th-century Gothic influences, and drawing on the Doges Palace in
Venice for its treatment of a rectangular Gothic palace.
The
museum's collection totals some 3,000 paintings and sculptures,
25,000 prints and drawings, and 38,000 photographs.[7] 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).
Members
of the Douglas family feature in the collection both as subjects and
as artists.
Artists:
Hugh Douglas Hamilton
Sir William Fettes
Douglas Lucinda Douglas-Menzies
Subjects:
Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton
Sir James Douglas, 'The Good'
Bishop Gavin Douglas
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, and family
Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus
Archibald, 3rd Earl of Douglas
Archibald, 5th Earl of Angus
Sir William Douglas, Knight of Liddesdale
Sir William Fettes
Douglas - He was an office bearer of the antiquaries
1890-9
Lady Frances Scott, later Lady Douglas
George Douglas of Lochleven
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel
Susannah Douglas, Mrs Alexander Murray of Cringletie
* The coat of arms of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus,
Archibald, Earl of Douglas and Sir James Douglas are in a
stained glass window off the Central Hall on the first
floor.
If you think these lists are incomplete, please let me know.
Any contribution will be
gratefully accepted
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