Experience Edinburgh

t Van Gogh’s Olive Trees, one of many works by 19th-century European masters

Scottish society portraits by Allan Ramsay and Sir Henry Raeburn, including Raeburn’s Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, and rural scenes and landscapes by David Wilkie and William McTaggart are among the highlights of the gallery’s collections.

However, treasures are not limited to Scottish talents; the gallery is well worth visiting for its 15th- to 19th-century British and European paintings alone, though plenty more can be found to delight art lovers. An entire room is devoted to Nicholas Poussin’s The Seven Sacraments, and Raphael’s The Bridgewater Madonna appears alongside works by Titian, Tintoretto and Velazquez. Flemish and Dutch artists such as Rembrandt, Van Dyck and Rubens are also well represented. Paintings by Northern European Artists include Degas’ A Group of Dancers and Van Gogh’s Olive Trees, while Sir Edwin Landseer’s iconic image of a red deer stag, The Monarch of the Glen, acquired in 2017, will have pride of place when refurbishment of gallery spaces devoted to Scottish art is completed in 2019.

t Woman photographing the iconic painting The Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer