Archibald Alison was brought up and educated in Edinburgh before becoming a successful lawyer. His true vocation, however, was as a historian and social commentator, in both cases of strongly ...

Leonora Carrington first met and fell in love with the surrealist artist Max Ernst at a dinner party in London in 1937; they immediately started a relationship. Soon after Carrington moved to Paris to ...

This medal commemorates the Duke of Cumberland’s victory over the Jacobites at Culloden. The obverse shows the duke mounted on a horse, his sword held aloft. The reverse shows him galloping across a ...

ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Art Fund, 2008 German artist Beuys ...

The poet and novelist George MacDonald was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and was the son of a farmer. He became a Congregationalist minister, but was obliged to relinquish his parish on account of ...

This celebratory display of works by internationally renowned Scottish artist Bruce McLean, marks his 80th birthday. Trace McLean’s humorous and lively six-decade long inquiry into sculpture and revel ...

Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed on 8 February 1587 at Fotheringhay Castle, in Northamptonshire. After nineteen years in captivity, she was found guilty of plotting the assassination of her cousin, ...

The original version of 'Beata Beatrix' is in Tate and dates from around 1864- 70. Images for much of Rossetti's work were provided by his study and translation of medieval poetry, including Dante's ...

Gill was born in Brighton where his father was a clergyman. The family later moved to Chichester, where Gill enrolled at art school at the age of fifteen. As the son of a clergyman, he had free access ...

This painting, which dates from 1888 and was made in Pont-Aven, Brittany, is one of Gauguin's most famous works. The Breton women, dressed in distinctive regional costume, have just listened to a ...

Prepare to be immersed in a major, large-scale exhibition by Andy Goldsworthy. Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years will take over the upper and lower galleries in the Royal Scottish Academy building for the ...