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
Room 2
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2:16
Three Oncologists, by Ken Currie, 2002
Room 2
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2:34
Jackie Kay (born 1961), by Michael Snowden, 2004
Room 2
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1:52
Red and Unread, Portrait of Tilda Swinton (born 1960), by John Byrne, 2002-2004
Room 2
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1:54
Dame Muriel Spark (1918 - 2006). Writer, by Alexander Moffat, 1984
Room 2
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2:03
Captain Eric Brown, by Jenna Gearing, 2015
Room 2
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2:27
Susie Wolff: Portrait of a Racing Driver, by Angela Palmer, 2018
Room 3
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2:13
Robert Henderson Blyth, 1919-1970. Sub-titled 'Existence Precarious', by Robert Henderson Blyth, 1946
Room 3
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2:31
Nicola Benedetti, by Calum Stevenson, 2021
Room 3
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1:50
Poets’ Pub, by Alexander Moffat, 1980
Room 3
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2:51
Horse McDonald, b.1958. Singer-songwriter, by Roxana Halls, 2019
Room 2
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2:49
The Marriage Procession of James IV and Margaret Tudor Edinburgh A.D. 1503, by William Brassey Hole, 1898
Upper Great Hall
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3:03
Mary, Queen of Scots, by Unknown, about 1610 - 1615
Room 6
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1:46
Esther Inglis, by Unknown, 1595
Room 6
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1:46
The Execution of Charles I, by Unknown, about 1649
Room 7
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2:33
Anne of Denmark, by Adrian Vanson, dated 1595
Room 8
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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
Room 8
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1:55
Culloden Quodlibet, by Thomas Keyse, 1765
Room 9
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1:55
Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska, 1701-1735. Wife of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, by Francesco Trevisani, 1795
Room 9
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2:44
John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, about 1693-1770. Soldier, by Thomas Gainsborough, 1767
Room 9
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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
Room 10
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2:22
Jane Maxwell, Duchess of Gordon, by Angelica Kauffmann, about 1749-1812
Room 10
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2:16
Ann Forbes, 1745-1834, by David Allan, 1781
Room 10
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2:40
Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth 1744 - 1781 at home in Naples: fencing scene, by Pietro Fabris, 1771
Room 10
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1:20
Sakæus, about 1792-1819. Inuit hunter, interpreter and artist, by Alexander Nasmyth, about 1818
Room 11
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2:20
Sir David Wilkie, 1785-1841. Artist (Self-portrait), by Sir David Wilkie, about 1804-1805
Room 11
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1:30
Phoebe Anna Traquair, 1852-1936. Artist (Self-portrait), by Phoebe Anna Traquair, 1911
Room 12
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1:41
Duncan Grant, 1885 - 1978. Artist (Self-portrait), by Duncan Grant, about 1920
Room 13
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1:50
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1860-1937. Author, by Sir William Nicholson, 1904
Room 13
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1:52
Mary Sommerville, 1780-1872. Writer on science, by Thomas Phillips, 1834
Room 14
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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
Room 14
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2:16
Photography at the National Galleries Scotland
Room 14
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2:34
Sarah Biffin, Mrs Wright, 1784-1850. Artist (Self-portrait), by Sarah Biffin, 1830
Library
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1:58
Dr Elsie Maud Inglis, 1864 - 1917, by Ivan Meštrović, 1918
Great Hall
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2:17
Robert Burns (1759-1796), by John Flaxman, 1824
Great Hall
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2:44
Processional Frieze, by William Brassey Hole, 1897 - 1898
Great Hall
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3:02
Farewell
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0:56