NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND
Audio Tour | National Galleries Scotland: Portrait
This audio tour will guide you through the Portrait. You’ll hear from a variety of artists, authors, academics, curators and commentators. They’ll offer unique insights into the different forms that portraits can take and tell you remarkable stories about figures from Scotland’s past and the individuals who are shaping its present and future....
1h 15 mins
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Welcome
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0:59
Works From A Scottish Family Portrait Series, Shaheen Unis with her Husband and Grandchildren, Edinburgh, 19 June 2011
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2:16
Three Oncologists, by Ken Currie, 2002
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2:34
Jackie Kay (born 1961), by Michael Snowden, 2004
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1:52
Shot at Dawn, by Chloe Dewe Mathews, 2013
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2:01
Red and Unread, Portrait of Tilda Swinton (born 1960), by John Byrne, 2002-2004
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1:54
Dame Muriel Spark (1918 - 2006). Writer, by Alexander Moffat, 1984
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2:03
Captain Eric Brown, by Jenna Gearing, 2015
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2:27
Susie Wolff: Portrait of a Racing Driver, by Angela Palmer, 2018
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2:13
Robert Henderson Blyth, 1919-1970. Sub-titled 'Existence Precarious', by Robert Henderson Blyth, 1946
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2:31
Nicola Benedetti, by Calum Stevenson, 2021
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1:50
Poets’ Pub, by Alexander Moffat, 1980
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2:51
Horse McDonald, b.1958. Singer-songwriter, by Roxana Halls, 2019
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2:49
The Marriage Procession of James IV and Margaret Tudor Edinburgh A.D. 1503, by William Brassey Hole, 1898
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3:03
Mary, Queen of Scots, by Unknown, about 1610 - 1615
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1:46
Esther Inglis, by Unknown, 1595
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1:46
The Execution of Charles I, by Unknown, about 1649
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2:33
Anne of Denmark, by Adrian Vanson, dated 1595
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2:20
George Seton, 8th Lord Seton and 3rd Earl of Winton, 1584 - 1650. Royalist (With his sons, George, Lord Seton, 1613 - 1648 and Alexander, 1st Viscount Kingston, 1620 - 1691. Royalists), by Adam de Colone, 1625
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1:55
Culloden Quodlibet, by Thomas Keyse, 1765
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1:55
Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska, 1701-1735. Wife of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, by Francesco Trevisani, 1795
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2:44
John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, about 1693-1770. Soldier, by Thomas Gainsborough, 1767
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2:38
Prince James receiving his son, Prince Henry, in front of the Palazzo del Re, by Paolo Monaldi and Pubalacci Silvestri, 1747-1748
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2:22
Jane Maxwell, Duchess of Gordon, by Angelica Kauffmann, about 1749-1812
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2:16
Ann Forbes, 1745-1834, by David Allan, 1781
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2:40
Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth 1744 - 1781 at home in Naples: fencing scene, by Pietro Fabris, 1771
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1:20
Sakæus, about 1792-1819. Inuit hunter, interpreter and artist, by Alexander Nasmyth, about 1818
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2:20
Sir David Wilkie, 1785-1841. Artist (Self-portrait), by Sir David Wilkie, about 1804-1805
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1:30
Phoebe Anna Traquair, 1852-1936. Artist (Self-portrait), by Phoebe Anna Traquair, 1911
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1:41
Duncan Grant, 1885 - 1978. Artist (Self-portrait), by Duncan Grant, about 1920
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1:50
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1860-1937. Author, by Sir William Nicholson, 1904
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1:52
Mary Sommerville, 1780-1872. Writer on science, by Thomas Phillips, 1834
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1:36
Rev. Thomas Guthrie, 1803-1873. Preacher and philanthropist (Exhibited as Dr Guthrie on a Mission of Mercy), by James Edgard, 1862
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2:16
Photography at the National Galleries Scotland
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2:34
Sarah Biffin, Mrs Wright, 1784-1850. Artist (Self-portrait), by Sarah Biffin, 1830
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1:58
Dr Elsie Maud Inglis, 1864 - 1917, by Ivan Meštrović, 1918
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2:17
Robert Burns (1759-1796), by John Flaxman, 1824
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2:44
Processional Frieze, by William Brassey Hole, 1897 - 1898
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3:02
Farewell
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0:56