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Scottish National Portrait Gallery - in pictures

Scottish Portrait Gallery: The Scottish National Portrait Gallery Reopens
A visitor at the press reopening of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. 'In the last two years the building has been completely remodelled, floors and walls rearranged, small galleries created, large galleries beautifully brightened with LED systems and the plentiful daylight now entering through the new roof' Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Scottish Portrait Gallery: (Lady) Naomi Mitchison
Percy Wyndham Lewis
(Lady) Naomi Mitchison, 1897 - 1999. Author, 1938. 'From Nicholas Hilliard’s devastatingly subtle James VI and I to Wyndham Lewis’s hieratic Naomi Mitchison, scowling impatiently, the museum is full of great works of art'
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Cleaned frescoes in the main hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 'the world’s first purpose-built portrait gallery – funded by The Scotsman’s proprietor when the government wouldn’t stump up the funds – opened in 1889, a huge neo-gothic edifice of red sandstone that more resembles an ecclesiastical building than a museum' Photograph: Murdo MacLeod
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Anne Erskine
George Jamesone
Anne Erskine, Countess of Rothes, d. 1640. Wife of the 6th Earl of Rothes. (With her daughters, Lady Margaret Leslie, 1621 - 1688 and Lady Mary Leslie, b. 1620), 1626. 'The gallery's new inclusivity allows for some real revelations. The room devoted to Scotland’s first portrait painter fills the imagination'
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Campbell of Glenorchy Family Tree
George Jamesone
Campbell of Glenorchy Family Tree, 1635. 'George Jamesone (c. 1587-1644) studied with a decorative painter in Aberdeen'
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Portrait painter
George Jamesone
Portrait painter (Self-portrait), about 1633. 'Jamesone’s portraits are hardly Van Dyck, not surprising given the isolation of these early painters. But his self-portrait - leaning forward, alert and highly attentive as if dwelling on your every syllable – is a little wonder'
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Mary, Queen of Scots
Unknown artist
Mary, Queen of Scots, painted about 1610-15. 'The gallery has opened up, brought its portraits – its people - out of the shadows. It now shows, for instance, not just the textbook Mary Queen of Scots but images of her confidantes, husbands, advisers and detractors, notably her nemesis John Knox, to present a more intimate sense of her life'
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: George, 5th Lord Seton
Attributed to Adrian Vanson
George, 5th Lord Seton (about 1531 - 1585), aged 27, 1570s
Photograph: Antonia Reeve/Scottish National Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Allan Ramsay
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), 1766. 'Rousseau, painted by Ramsay for Hume when the Scot brought the Frenchman to Britain to escape persecution in 1765'
Photograph: Scottish National Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: James VI and I
Nicholas Hilliard
James VI and I, 1566 - 1625. King of Scotland 1567 - 1625. King of England and Ireland 1603 - 1625, about 1609
Photograph: On Loan from the Collection of The Buchanan Society/Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: John Knox
Unknown; after Adrian Vanson
John Knox, 1505 - 1572. Reformer and historian, 1580
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Mary of Guise
Corneille de Lyon
Mary of Guise, 1515 - 1560. Queen of James V, about 1537
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Ozias Humphry
Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1720 - 1788. Eldest son of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, 1776
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Wilkie Self-portrait
Sir David Wilkie
Artist (Self-portrait), about 1804 - 1805. 'Sometimes the wall-texts make too much of the biography, downplaying the picture for the person. Nothing is made of, for example, the amazingly free brushwork in David Wilkie’s self-portrait'
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: William Hare (Life Mask)
Unknown
William Hare (Life Mask). 'The library has been brought wholesale from the top floor to the centre of the building, filled with wonderful sculptures and strange curiosities, including the death masks of Voltaire and grave robbers Burke and Hare'
Photograph: On loan from the Henderson Trust/Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Thomas Carlyle, 1867
Julia Margaret Cameron
Thomas Carlyle, 1867
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: The Castlemilk Lads, 1963
Oscar Marzaroli
The Castlemilk Lads, 1963. 'The overlooked, the forgotten, the marginal and the nameless: these people of Scotland’s past (and present) now take their place for the first time in the newly remade Scottish National Portrait Gallery'
Photograph: © Anne Marzaroli/Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Close, No. 46 Saltmarket
Thomas Annan
Close, No. 46 Saltmarket
From Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, 1868 - 1871. 'The new photography gallery introduces the nineteenth century as never before: schoolboys, crofters, salmon poachers, ladies in long skirts scaling Salisbury Crags. Thomas Annan’s Saltmarket series is the first slum record'
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Close, No. 29 Gallowgate
Thomas Annan
Close, No. 29 Gallowgate
From Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, 1868 - 1871
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish Portrait Gallery: Close No. 101 High Street, Glasgow
Thomas Annan
Close No. 101 High Street, Glasgow
From Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, 1868 - 1871
Photograph: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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