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{{Short description|Part of National Galleries Scotland in Edinburgh}}
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|location = [[The Mound]], Edinburgh
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The '''National''' (formerly the '''Scottish National Gallery''') is the [[national art gallery]] of [[Scotland]]. It is located on [[The Mound]] in central [[Edinburgh]], close to [[Princes Street]]. The building was designed in a [[Neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]] style by [[William Henry Playfair]], and first opened to the public in 1859.<ref name="history" />

The gallery houses Scotland's national collection of [[fine art]], spanning [[Scottish art|Scottish]] and international art from the beginning of the [[Renaissance]] up to the start of the 20th century.

The National is run by [[National Galleries Scotland]], a public body that also owns the [[Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art]] and the [[Scottish National Portrait Gallery]]. Because of its architectural similarity, the National is frequently confused by visitors with the neighbouring [[Royal Scottish Academy Building]] (RSA), a separate institution which works closely with the National.<ref name="campbell" />

==History==
[[File:Edinburgh Castle and National Gallery (3610788685).jpg|thumb|Edinburgh Castle and National Gallery ({{Circa|1865}})]]
The origins of Scotland's national collection lie with the Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland, founded in 1819. It began to acquire paintings, and in 1828 the Royal Institution building opened on The Mound. In 1826, the Scottish Academy was founded by a group of artists who, dissatisfied with its policies, seceded from the Royal Institution, and in 1838 it became the [[Royal Scottish Academy]] (RSA). A key aim of the RSA was the founding of a national collection. It began to build up a collection and from 1835 rented exhibition space within the Royal Institution building.<ref name="history">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationalgalleries.org/visit/history-architecture-121/ |title=Scottish National Gallery - History & Architecture |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207031139/http://www.nationalgalleries.org/visit/history-architecture-121/ |archive-date=7 February 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=27 January 2014}}</ref>

In the 1840s, plans were put in place for a new building to house the RSA.<ref name="history" /> The noted Scottish architect William Henry Playfair was commissioned to prepare designs, and on 30 August 1850, [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]] laid the [[foundation stone]].<ref name=listed>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB27679|desc=1 THE MOUND, NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND WITH RAILINGS|cat=A|access-date=26 February 2019}}</ref> The building was originally divided along the middle, with the east half housing the exhibition galleries of the RSA, and the western half containing the new National Gallery of Scotland,<ref name=listed/> formed from the collection of the Royal Institution.<ref name="history" /> In 1912 the RSA moved into the Royal Institution building, which remains known as the [[Royal Scottish Academy Building]]. When it re-opened, the gallery concentrated on building its permanent collection of Scottish and European art for the nation of Scotland.

In the early 21st century, the National Galleries launched the Playfair Project, a scheme to create a new basement entrance to the National Gallery in [[Princes Street Gardens]] and an underground connecting space, called the Weston Link, between the gallery and the renovated Royal Scottish Academy building. The new underground space opened in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalgalleries.org/aboutus/special-projects/the-playfair-project// |title=Playfair Project |publisher=National Galleries of Scotland |access-date=3 April 2012 |archive-date=1 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161101164439/https://www.nationalgalleries.org/aboutus/special-projects/the-playfair-project// |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2012, the gallery's [[umbrella organisation]], National Galleries of Scotland, underwent a rebranding exercise, and National Gallery of Scotland was renamed the Scottish National Gallery.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Potter|first1=MatthewC|title=The Concept of the 'Master' in Art Education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the Present |date=2017|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781351545471|page=17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UzkrDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Scottish%20National%20Gallery%22%20rebranded%20%22National%20Gallery%20of%20Scotland%22&pg=PA17|access-date=12 April 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=O Street creates unifying brands for Scottish galleries - Design Week|url=https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/9-june-2011/o-street-creates-unifying-brands-for-scottish-galleries/|website=[[Design Week]]|access-date=12 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412093312/https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/9-june-2011/o-street-creates-unifying-brands-for-scottish-galleries/|archive-date=12 April 2018|date=8 June 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2023, the organisation was rebranded once more, and adopted the shorter name ''National Galleries Scotland''. Each of its galleries was also rebranded and the Scottish National Gallery is now billed as ''National Galleries Scotland: National''.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/new-look-national-galleries-scotland |title=New look for the National Galleries of Scotland |website=www.nationalgalleries.org |date=29 March 2023 |access-date=29 March 2023}}</ref>

==Building==
William Playfair's building—like its neighbour, the Royal Scottish Academy—was designed in the form of an [[ancient Greek temple]]. While Playfair designed the RSA in the [[Doric order]], the National Gallery building is in the [[Ionic order]]. The main east and west elevations have plain [[Pilaster|pilastrading]] with the higher central transverse block having [[hexastyle]] Ionic [[portico]]es. Paired Ionic columns [[Anta (architecture)|in antis]] are flanked by [[tetrastyle]] Ionic porticoes at north and south. The design reflects the building's original dual purpose being divided longitudinally with the exhibition galleries of the RSA to the east and the National Gallery to the west.<ref name="campbell">{{cite book|last1=Campbell|first1=Donald|title=Edinburgh: A Cultural and Literary History|date=2003|publisher=Signal Books|isbn=9781902669731|url=https://archive.org/details/edinburghcultura0000camp|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/edinburghcultura0000camp/page/120 120]|quote=national gallery of scotland edinburgh greek temple#.|access-date=12 April 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref name="pevsner">{{cite book|last1=Gifford|first1=John|last2=McWilliam|first2=Colin|last3=Walker|first3=David|last4=Wilson|first4=Christopher|title=Edinburgh|date=1991|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0300096720|pages=282–3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mvmDV3oeRU0C&q=edinburgh%20pevsner&pg=PA282|access-date=12 April 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref name=listed />

Playfair worked to a much more limited budget than the RSA project, and this is reflected in his comparatively austere architectural style. He may have drawn inspiration from an 1829 scheme for an arcade of shops by Archibald Elliot II, son of [[Archibald Elliot]]. Playfair's National Gallery was laid out in a [[cruciform]] plan; he originally planned to build towers at the corners of the transverse central block, but these were abandoned during the project. When the RSA moved into the former Royal Institution building in 1912, the Office of Works Architect for Scotland, [[William Thomas Oldrieve]] remodelled the NGS interior to house the National Gallery collection exclusively.<ref name="pevsner" />

In the 1970s, when the gallery was under the direction of the [[Department of the Environment (United Kingdom)|Department of the Environment]], the internal accommodation was extended. An upper floor was added at the south end in 1972, creating five new small galleries, and in 1978 a new gallery was opened in the basement to house the Gallery's Scottish Collection.<ref name="pevsner"/><ref name="our-history">{{cite web|title=Our history|url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/about-us/our-history|website=www.nationalgalleries.org|publisher=National Galleries of Scotland|access-date=12 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412103722/https://www.nationalgalleries.org/about-us/our-history|archive-date=12 April 2018|language=en}}</ref>

The new Princes Street Gardens entrance and underground space opened in 2004 was designed by John Miller and Partners. Construction took five years and cost £32 million. The area contains a lecture theatre, education area, shop, restaurant, an interactive gallery, and a link to the RSA building.<ref name="history" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3533074.stm |title=Opening day for gallery project |publisher=BBC News |date=4 August 2004 |access-date=29 March 2023}}</ref>

In January 2019, construction work began on a project to alter the lower level areas and to create extended exhibition space. It is planned that the Princes Street Gardens entrance will become the main entrance of the gallery; to facilitate access, East Princes Street Gardens is being re-landscaped with sloping paths and 52 trees have been felled, to be replaced with 22 newly planted saplings.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ferguson |first1=Brian |title=Work begins on £22 million project for better access to Scottish National Gallery |url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/work-begins-on-22-million-project-for-better-access-to-scottish-national-gallery-1-4852501 |access-date=7 January 2019 |work=The Scotsman |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Scottish National Gallery Project |url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/scottish-national-gallery-project |publisher=National Galleries of Scotland |access-date=7 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref> The redevelopment is delayed until at least late 2022, as a result of asbestos being found in part of the structure and due to the implications of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name="Herald">{{cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18219013.scottish-national-gallery-refurbishment-hit-unexpected-defects/| title=Scottish National Gallery refurbishment hit by 'unexpected defects' |work=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]] | date=7 February 2020 |access-date=29 August 2021}}</ref><ref name="ConstructionNews">{{cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18219013.scottish-national-gallery-refurbishment-hit-unexpected-defects/ |title=Scottish National Gallery project pushed back to end of 2022 |date=7 February 2020 |publisher=Scottish Construction Now |access-date=29 August 2021}}</ref>

<gallery caption="Architectural features" mode="packed">
File:Scottish National Gallery.jpg|Twin porticoes at the main entrance with the original name inscribed on the frieze.
File:Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. - geograph.org.uk - 1475030.jpg|Playfair's ionic columns
File:SNGInt.jpg|Interior of the ground floor main galleries
File:National Gallery of Scotland - geograph.org.uk - 428845.jpg|The Princes Street Gardens entrance (opened 2004)
</gallery>

==Research==
The research facilities at the Scottish National Gallery include the Prints and Drawings Collection of over 30,000 works on paper, from the [[early Renaissance]] to the late nineteenth century; and the reference-only Research Library. The Research Library covers the period from 1300 to 1900 and holds approximately 50,000 volumes of books, journals, slides, and microfiches, as well as some archival material relating to the collections, exhibitions and history of the National Gallery. The Print Room or Research Library can be accessed by appointment.

==Collection==
{{commons and category|Scottish National Gallery|Paintings in the Scottish National Gallery}}
At the heart of the National Gallery's collection is a group of paintings transferred from the [[Royal Scottish Academy]]. This includes masterpieces by [[Jacopo Bassano]], [[Van Dyck]] and [[Giambattista Tiepolo]]. The National Gallery did not receive its own purchase grant until 1903.

In the Gallery's main ground floor rooms are displayed a number of major large-scale canvases such as [[Benjamin West]]'s ''[[Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag]]'' (1786), [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]]'s ''The Feast of Herod'' (1633 or c.1637-38) and a pair of paintings by [[Titian]], ''Diana and Actaeon'' and ''Diana and Callisto'' (purchased jointly with the [[National Gallery, London]]). The Scottish National Gallery has also jointly acquired one of [[Antonio Canova|Canova]]'s sculptures of [[The Three Graces (Canova)|The Three Graces]]  with the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].<ref name="artworks">{{cite web|title=Artworks|url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/search?location%5B36063%5D=36063|website=www.nationalgalleries.org|publisher=National Galleries of Scotland|access-date=13 April 2018|language=en}}</ref>

The Scottish National Gallery has a notable collection of works by [[Scottish art]]ists, including several landscapes by [[Alexander Nasmyth]], and several works by Sir [[Henry Raeburn]] — of particular note 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 (artist)|James Guthrie]]. The Gallery also holds a collection of works by English painters, such as [[John Constable|Constable]]'s ''[[The Vale of Dedham (painting)|The Vale of Dedham]]'' and a sizeable collection of water colours by [[Joseph Mallord William Turner|Turner]] which are traditionally displayed in January. ''[[The Monarch of the Glen (painting)|The Monarch of the Glen]]'', a painting considered to depict the grandeur of the wildlife and scenery of the Scottish Highlands, is also held in the gallery, the work of the English painter [[Sir Edwin Landseer]].<ref name="artworks" />

===Notable works===
Key works of art displayed at the National Gallery include:
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*[[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]], ''[[:Commons:File:Monsignor Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo.JPG|Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo]]'' and ''Design for a Papal Monument''
*[[Sandro Botticelli]], ''[[:commons:File:Botticelli Scotland 96.jpg|Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child]]''
*[[Frans Hals]], ''[[commons:File:Frans Hals - Verdonck - WGA11086.jpg|Portrait of Pieter Verdonck]]''
*[[Antonio Canova]],  ''[[The Three Graces (Canova)|The Three Graces]]'' (displayed on rotation with the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in London)
*[[Paul Cézanne]], ''[[:commons:File:The Big Trees (Paul Cézanne).jpg|The Big Trees]]'' and ''[[:commons:File:Paul Cezanne - Montagne Sainte-Victoire - Google Art Project.jpg|Montagne Sainte-Victoire]]''
*[[Jean Siméon Chardin]], ''[[:File:Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin - A Vase of Flowers - Google Art Project.jpg|Vase of Flowers]]''
*[[John Constable]], ''[[The Vale of Dedham (painting)|The Vale of Dedham]]'' [https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/john-constable SNG]
*[[Gerard David]], ''[[:commons:File:Three Legends of Saint Nicholas.jpg|Three Legends of St Nicholas]]''
*[[Edgar Degas]], ''[[:commons:File:Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 052.jpg|Portrait of Diego Martelli]]''
*[[James Drummond (artist)|James Drummond]], ''[[The Porteous Mob]]'' and ''A Lady Descending from a Sedan Chair. Study for the Painting The Porteous Mob''<ref>[http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_az/4:322/?initial=D&artistId=3196&artistName=James%20Drummond&submit=1 National Gallery of Scotland, James Drummond]</ref>
*[[Anthony van Dyck]], ''[[:commons:File:Anthony van Dyck - The Lomellini Family - WGA07417.jpg|The Lomellini Family]]''
*[[Thomas Gainsborough]], ''[[Portrait of Mrs Mary Graham]]''
*[[Paul Gauguin]], ''[[Vision after the Sermon]]''
*[[Hugo van der Goes]], ''[[Trinity Altarpiece|The Trinity Altarpiece]]'' (on loan from the [[Royal Collection]])
*[[Vincent van Gogh]],  ''[[:commons:File:Olive Trees (Van Gogh).jpg|Olive Trees]]''
*[[Francisco de Goya]], ''[[:commons:File:El médico, Francisco de Goya.jpg|El Medico]]''
*[[El Greco]], ''[[:commons:File:El Greco - San Jerónimo (Galería nacional de Escocia).jpg|Saint Jerome in Penitence]]'', ''[[:Commons:Image:El Greco - Allegory, Boy Lighting Candle in Company of Ape and Fool (Fábula).JPG|Fábula]]'' and ''[[:Commons:Image:El Greco 021.jpg|Christ Blessing (The Saviour of the World)]]''
*[[Gavin Hamilton (artist)|Gavin Hamilton]], ''[[:Commons:File:Hamilton Palmyra.JPG|Dawkins and Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra]]''
*[[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]], ''Mlle Albertine Hayard''
*[[Edwin Landseer]], ''[[The Monarch of the Glen (painting)|The Monarch of the Glen]]''
*[[Lorenzo Lotto]], ''[[Madonna and Child with Saints (Lotto)|Madonna and Child with Saints]]''
*[[Claude Monet]], ''[[Haystacks (Monet series)|Haystacks]]''
*[[Joseph Noel Paton]], ''[[The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania]]''
*[[Giambattista Pittoni]], ''[[:File:Giovanni Battista Pittoni - Sts Jerome and Peter of Alcantara - WGA17972.jpg|St Jerome and Peter of Alcantara]]''
*[[Nicolas Poussin]], ''[[Seven Sacraments (Poussin)#Second series|The Seven Sacraments]]''
*Sir [[Henry Raeburn]], ''[[The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch]]''
*[[Allan Ramsay (1713-1784)|Allan Ramsay]], ''[[Margaret Lindsay Ramsay|Margaret Lindsay]]''
*[[Raphael]], ''[[:Commons:File:Raphael - Madonna Bridgewater.JPG|The Bridgewater Madonna]]''
*[[Rembrandt van Rijn]], ''[[:Commons:File:Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) - A Woman in Bed - Google Art Project.jpg|A Woman in Bed]]'' and ''[[:Commons:File:Rembrandt aged51.jpg|Self-Portrait]]''
*Sir [[Joshua Reynolds]], ''[[The Ladies Waldegrave]]''
*[[Pieter Jansz Saenredam]], ''[[Grote Kerk, Haarlem]]''
*[[Georges Seurat]], ''[[:Commons:File:Georges Seurat - La Luzerne, Saint-Denis - Google Art Project.jpg|La Luzerne, St-Denis]]''
*[[John Singer Sargent]], ''[[Lady Agnew of Lochnaw]]''
*[[Titian]], ''[[Venus Anadyomene (Titian)|Venus Anadyomene]]'', ''[[Diana and Callisto]]'', ''[[Diana and Actaeon (Titian)|Diana and Actaeon]]'', ''[[:Commons:File:Tiziano, sacra conversazione edimburgo.jpg|The Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint]]'', and ''[[The Three Ages of Man (Titian)|The Three Ages of Man]]''
*[[Joseph Mallord William Turner]], ''Somer Hill'' and the Vaughan Bequest of 38 works
*[[Diego Velázquez]], ''[[Old Woman Frying Eggs]]''
*[[Johannes Vermeer]], ''[[Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Vermeer)|Christ in the House of Martha and Mary]]''
*[[Antoine Watteau]], ''[[Fêtes Vénitiennes]]''
}}

<gallery mode="packed" heights="154px" caption="Notable artworks in the Scottish National Gallery collection">
File:Raphael The Holy Family with a Palm Tree.jpg|''Holy Family with a Palm Tree'' <br/>(Raphael, 1506)
File:Tizian 015 (2).jpg|''[[Diana and Callisto]]'' <br/>([[Titian]], 1559)
File:Frans Hals 104 WGA version.jpg|''Portrait of François Wouters''<br/>([[Frans Hals]], about 1644)
File:Thomas Gainsborough - The Honourable Mrs Graham (1757 - 1792) - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[Portrait of Mrs Mary Graham]]'' <br/>([[Thomas Gainsborough]], 1775)
File:Sir Joshua Reynolds - The Ladies Waldegrave - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[The Ladies Waldegrave]]'' <br/>([[Joshua Reynolds]], 1780)
File:Benjamin West - Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag by the Intrepidity of Colin Fitzgerald ('The Death of the Stag') - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag by the Intrepidity of Colin Fitzgerald|Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag]]'' <br/> ([[Benjamin West]], 1786)
File:Reverend Robert Walker (1755 - 1808) Skating on Duddingston Loch.jpg|''[[The Skating Minister|The Rev Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch]]'' <br/>(Sir [[Henry Raeburn]], 1790s)
File:Mary Nisbet.jpg|''[[Portrait of Mary Nisbet]]'' <br/>([[François Gérard]], 1803)
File:John Constable 012.jpg|''[[The Vale of Dedham (painting)|The Vale of Dedham]]'' <br/>([[John Constable]], 1828)
File:The Murder of David Rizzio.jpg|''[[The Murder of David Rizzio]]'' <br/> [[William Allan (painter)|William Allan]] (1833)
File:The Monarch of the Glen, Edwin Landseer, 1851.png|''[[The Monarch of the Glen (painting)|The Monarch of the Glen]]'' <br/>([[Edwin Landseer]], 1851)
File:Frederic Edwin Church - Niagara Falls, from the American Side - Google Art Project.jpg|''Niagara Falls, from the American Side'' <br/>([[Frederic Edwin Church]], 1867)
Image:Haystacks, Snow Effect 1891 Claude Monet NGScotland.jpg|''[[Haystacks (Monet series)|Haystacks]]'' <br/>([[Claude Monet]], 1891)
Image:La vision après le sermon (Paul Gauguin).jpg|''[[Vision après le Sermon]]'' <br/>([[Paul Gauguin]], 1888)
</gallery>

Other artists represented in the collection include:

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*[[David Allan (Scottish painter 1744-1796)|David Allan]]
*[[Francis Bacon (painter)|Francis Bacon]]
*[[Federico Barocci]]
*[[William Blake]]
*[[Eugène Boudin]]
*[[David Young Cameron]]
*[[Gustave Courbet]]
*[[Aelbert Cuyp]]
*[[Eugène Delacroix]]
*[[Domenichino]]
*[[Albrecht Dürer]]
*[[William Dyce]]
*[[Adam Elsheimer]]
*[[John Emms (artist)|John Emms]]<ref>[http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_az/4:322/result/0/4878?initial=E&artistId=3232&artistName=John%20Emms&submit=1 John Emms, National Gallery of Scotland.]</ref>
*[[Andrew Geddes (artist)|Andrew Geddes]]
*[[Guercino]]
*[[James Guthrie (artist)|James Guthrie]]
*[[Frans Hals]]
*[[Meindert Hobbema]]
*[[Hans Holbein the Younger]]
*[[Edward Atkinson Hornel]]
*[[Robert Scott Lauder]]
*[[Horatio McCulloch]]
*[[William York Macgregor]]
*[[William MacTaggart]]
*[[Lorenzo Monaco]]
*[[Berthe Morisot]]
*[[John Phillip]]
*[[Giovanni Battista Piranesi]]
*[[Camille Pissarro]]
*[[Robert Priseman]]
*[[David Roberts (painter)|David Roberts]]
*[[Peter Paul Rubens]]
*[[George Sanders (painter)|George Sanders]]
*[[William Strang]]
*[[Tintoretto]]
*[[Leonardo da Vinci]]
*Sir [[David Wilkie (artist)|David Wilkie]]
*[[Francisco de Zurbarán]]
}}

==See also==
*[[National Galleries of Scotland]]
*[[List of national galleries]]

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
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*[https://www.nationalgalleries.org/visit/scottish-national-gallery homepage] on NationalGalleries.org

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