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Scottish art is the body of visual art made in what is now Scotland, or about Scottish subjects, since prehistoric times. It forms a distinctive tradition within European art, but the political union with England has led its partial subsumation in British art .
Alexander Keirincx, Seton Palace and the Forth Estuary, c. 1639. The earliest examples of Scottish landscape painting are in the tradition of Scottish house decoration for burgesses, lairds and lords, that arose after the Reformation in the sixteenth century, partly as a response to the loss of religious patronage. [2]
This is demonstrated in his most celebrated painting A Point in Time 1929–1937 now owned by the National Galleries of Scotland. [2] [11] Johnstone's work is found in several major UK public collections including the Tate Gallery, [12] the Government Art Collection, [13] The Fleming Collection and the Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collections.
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The National (formerly the Scottish National Gallery) is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh , close to Princes Street . The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair , and first opened to the public in 1859.
Scottish genre art is the depiction of everyday life in Scotland, or by Scottish artists, emulating the genre art of Netherlands painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Common themes included markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes.
George Heriot (1563–1624), Scottish goldsmith and jeweler; George Jamesone (or Jameson, c. 1587–1644), Scotland's first eminent portrait painter; David Paton, active 1660–1700, painter of miniatures; François Quesnel (c. 1543–1619), Scotland-born French painter; John Michael Wright (1617–1694), portrait painter in the Baroque style
Scotland's ecclesiastical art paid a heavy toll as a result of Reformation iconoclasm, with the almost total loss of medieval stained glass, religious sculpture and paintings. [7] The only significant surviving pre-Reformation stained glass in Scotland is a window of four roundels in the St. Magdalen Chapel of Cowgate , Edinburgh , completed in ...