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National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL, (map)
Telephone: 0131 624 6200
Web site: www.nationalgalleries.org
See also: Scotland

Background information
Opened to the public in 1859, the National Gallery of Scotland is situated

in the heart of Edinburgh and is home to Scotland's greatest collection of

European paintings and sculpture from the Renaissance to Post-Impressionism,

one of the very finest galleries of its size in the world. As well as

housing the national collection of work by Scottish artists, the Gallery

also has some 20,000 drawings, prints and watercolours, with a Print Room

open to the public by appointment. An active exhibitions programme both from

the permanent collections and major international loan exhibitions. The

gallery is complimented by the recent completion of the Playfair Project

which has provided a specialist exhibition venue in the Royal Scottish

Academy Building and the new facilities centre, the Weston Link Building.


General information
Facilities: Cafe, Shop, Disabled Access, Tours, Lectures, Restaurant, Audioguides to special exhibitions, Education programme and centre
Admission: Daily 10:00am to 5:00pm, late night openings Thursday until; 7:00pm Admission: Free, though some exhibitions may have an admission charge
How to find us: Limited nearby parking meters, pick up and drop off only. Any buses to Princes' Street or the Mound. The National Galleries of Scotland Visitors' Bus continues to operate its free service round the four Galleries. Waverley Station, Edinburgh - 5 mins walk away

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Highlights of the Collection

Bernini, Gianlorenzo Design for a Papal Monument

Cézanne, Paul The Big Trees

Canova, Antonio The Three Graces

Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Vase of Flowers

Constable, John Dedham Vale

David, Gerard Three Legends of St Nicholas

Degas, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Portrait of Diego Martelli

Dyck, Anthony van The Lomellini Family

Gainsborough, Thomas The Hon. Mrs Graham

Gauguin, Paul The Vision after the Sermon

Goes, Hugo van der The Trinity Altarpiece

Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de El Medico

Hamilton, Gavin Dawkins and Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra

Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Mlle Albertine Hayard

Poussin, Nicolas The Seven Sacraments

Raphael Bridgewater Madonna

Rembrandt van Rijn A Woman in Bed

Rembrandt van Rijn Self-Portrait ; Self-Portrait

Reynolds, Sir Joshua The Ladies Waldegrave

Saenredam, Pieter San Bavo, Haarlem

Seurat, Georges La Luzerne, St-Denis

Turner, Joseph Mallord William Somer Hill

Turner, Joseph Mallord William The Vaughan Bequest of 38 works ; The Vaughan Bequest of 38 works

Velázquez, Diego An Old Woman Cooking Eggs

Vermeer, Jan Christ in the House of Mary and Martha

Watteau, Jean-Antoine Ftes venetinnes


Other artists represented in the Collection

Allan, David

Barocci, Federico

Blake, William

Cézanne, Paul

Courbet, Jean-Désiré-Gustave

Cuyp, Aelbert

Degas, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar

Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène

Domenichino

Dyce, William

Elsheimer, Adam

Geddes, Andrew

Gogh, Vincent van

Greco, El

Guercino

Guthrie, James

Hals, Frans

Hobbema, Meindert

Holbein the Younger, Hans

Hornel, E.A.

Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique

Leonardo da Vinci

MacGregor, William York

MacTaggart, William

McCulloch, Horatio

Monet, Claude

Morisot, Berthe

Phillip, John

Pissarro, Camille

Poussin, Nicolas

Raeburn, Sir Henry

Ramsay, Allan

Rembrandt van Rijn

Rubens, Peter Paul

Scott Lauder, Robert

Seurat, Georges

Tintoretto, Jacopo

Titian

Velázquez, Diego

Wilkie, Sir David

Zurbaran, Francisco de


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Visitors Forum

I have an untitled picture of boating scene in an unresognisable drying estury, original, signed WF Burton and dated 1968, 68 X 57 cm, oil. 5000 Euro . If somebody intersteed , please reply.
Dan - 2010-05-12

my grandma has a painting not a print of a woodland scene with animals scattered and hidden around very beutiful signed wf burton any idea if these paintings have value david ryan 01772493778
dr - 2008-11-09

I Collect work by Bill Burton ( W F Burton) please contact me on 01206231397 or 07530631983 (one of the features of his work is a green bottle in sea scapes)
LCCR - 2008-10-30

wf burton oil paiting,,i have a oil paiting of tawn hows in lake district,,looking down onto lake and forest,,signed wf burton any one no if any value or would like to buy it
dean barron - 2008-09-09

I have a painting and is wondering if it is worht anything it is a very nice painting of a few boats on the side! It also has a floating green bottle in the the front PLEASE IF IT IS WORTH SOMTHING PLEASE EMAIL ME!!!!
Kylie M. - 2008-08-23

to the person asking of 1968 print of boats in a harbour with green bottle at front of picture. i also have it in a nice frame but i dont think its worth anything. i may be wrong. if anyone knows if it is worth anything let me know by e-mail userth8550@aol.com
alan thomas - 2008-05-27

I have a painting signed by W.F.Burton dated 1968. It is a sunset of a harbor with fishing and sail boats. It looks to be oil on canvas. Would like to find out about collectability and value. Thank You
Bret Satterthwaite - 2008-04-21

For the person interested in the artist W.F. Burton. I have an original FRIDAY WOODS signed in 1966. He displayed a a painting in a tailor\'s shop in Frinton-On- Sea and I got in touch with him to buy the painting for my mother as a gift on my marriage in 1968.
JOAN BOWER - 2008-04-20

I have an untitled picture of a winter boating scene in an unresognisable drying estury signed WF Burton and dated 1968. Any comments as to the value of this picture or where I could find out such information would be appreciated


e galt - 2006-10-04

I am looking for paintings by W F Burton. W e have one and would like to know what it is called.


katie thomas - 2005-08-09

I am looking for prints by the artist, Peter Graham 1836-1921, depicting the Scottish Highlands and/or seascapes. You websight is most helpful.
Pam Stohr - 2003-12-31

I am trying to find some information on a painting i saw at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh in August ( aroung the first) By Benjamin West "Alexander 111 of scotland Saved from a

b y Colin Fitzgerald 1786". It's an oil on canvas 366x52lcm.
LM - 2003-12-01

I am trying to find images of paintings by Jan Dvidsz de Heem - apparently you have some. Never guess it from your website.
peter davies - 2003-11-19

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