Art Guide Smith Art Gallery and Museum , Stirling

Smith Art Gallery and Museum , Stirling

Dumbarton Road, Stirling, Scotland, FK8 2RQ (map)
Telephone: 01786 471917

See also: Scotland

Background information
Founded in 1874 from the bequest of the artists and collector Thomas Stuart Smith. Houses fine collections of Scottish painting and British art of the 19th century.

Also has one of the least known Scottish history collections including the oldest curling stone in the world (1511), the Stirling Jug (1457) and the collection of Bannockburn tartans. Exhibition programme includes contemporary art and craft.

General information
Facilities: Cafe, Shop, Parking, Disabled Access, Tours, Picnic Area, Lectures, Conference facilities and Friends Membership
Admission: 10.30-5.00 Tuesday to Saturday 2.00-5.00 Sunday; Entrance free
How to find us: Junction 10 on M9 - follow signs for the Castle. Near Town Centre, Heritage Bus stops during summer season. Stirling

Particularly interesting for Local History Natural History Paintings Social History

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Highlights of the Collection

Alexander, Cosmo Charles Edward Stuart

Allan, Sir William A Highland Gillie

Bonington, Richard Parkes Street Scene in Paris

Bough, Sam On the Fife Coast

Cooper, Thomas Sidney Landscape with Cattle

Diaz de la Pena, Narcisse Virgile Girl with Flowers

Drummond, James The Fiery Cross

Faed, Thomas Maternal Joy

Harvey, Sir George Sheep Shearing

Howard, Hugh Arcangelo Corelli

Ladbrooke, Robert Landscape with Church

Linnell, John Gethsemane

MacTaggart, William The Old Pump Well

Poirson, Maurice Breton Scene

Reynolds, Sir Joshua Harriet Dutens

Scott Lauder, Robert Fair Maid of Perth

Vosterman, Johannes Stirling in the Time of the Stuarts

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill Dutch Shipping

Other artists represented in the Collection

Adam, Joseph Denovan

Bright, Henry

Cameron, David Young

Cox, David Sr.

Duncan, John

Harding, James Duffield

Harvey, Sir George

Henderson, Joseph

Henry, George

Hunt, William Holman

MacGregor, William York

Maris, Jacob

McCulloch, Horatio

Muller, William James

Nasmyth, Alexander

Pallizzi, Giuseppe

Paterson, James

Phillip, John

Redpath, Anne

Richardson, Thomas Miles

Smith, Thomas Stuart

Walton, Elijah A

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