National Gallery of Scotland
Why the
National Gallery of Scotland
is specialIt has a superlative collection of paintings, sculptures, and other artworks by great masters from the early Renaissance to the turn of the 20th century.
National Gallery of Scotland's famous artists
They include
Continental:
- Antonio Canova
- Antoon van Dyck
- Claude Lorraine
- Claude Monet
- Diego Velázquez
- Dominique Ingres
- Edgar Degas
- El Greco
- Francisco de Goya
- Gerard David
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Georges Seurat
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
- Johannes Vermeer
- Nicolas Poussin
- Paul Cézanne
- Raphael
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Sandro Botticelli
- Tintoretto
- Titian
- John Constable
- William Turner
- Joshua Reynolds
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Allan Ramsay
- David Wilkie
- Henry Raeburn
- William McTaggart
Free
Admission is free to the permanent collection, (though there is a fee for special exhibitions).
About the museum
It was founded in 1859. Today it is part of the National Galleries of Scotland, an umbrella organization whose other Edinburgh components include the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery of Modern Art.
Location in Scotland
