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The Last Supper in Footdee
The Last Supper in Footdee depicts an imagined dinner party at Cairns’s house in Footdee in Aberdeen. Here, like in many of her other artworks, Cairns has used props, costume, and figures (real and ...
National Galleries of Scotland3d
George Macdonald, 1824 - 1905. Poet and novelist
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 ...
National Galleries of Scotland7d
Dante Gabriel Charles Rossetti, Beata Beatrix
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 ...
National Galleries of Scotland7d
Girl in Bath II [P 218]
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 ...
National Galleries of Scotland7d
Christ Crucified, Chalice and Host [P 45]
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 ...
National Galleries of Scotland7d
Hound of St Dominic [P 225]
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 ...
National Galleries of Scotland7d
Thomas Annan, Rev. John McColl
The MacKinnon Collection. Acquired jointly with the National Library of Scotland with assistance from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Scottish Government and Art Fund Having begun his career as a ...
National Galleries of Scotland7d
Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
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 ...
National Galleries of Scotland7d
The Mission of St Columba to the Picts A.D. 563
In 563 AD, the Irish Christian missionary Columba (521-597) and his twelve companions settled on Iona. An island in the west of Scotland, Iona was at that time part of the Gaelic kingdom of Dalriada.
National Galleries of Scotland10d
Building Aircraft: Making the Engine (from the series ‘The Great War: Britain’s Efforts and Ideals’)
This print is from a portfolio series commissioned by the Bureau of Information, called ‘The Great War: Britain’s Efforts and Ideals’. Twelve artists made prints relating to the ‘Ideals’ involved in ...
National Galleries of Scotland10d
Ithaca, from the top of Mount Nirito
Lear first visited Ithaca, in the Ionian Islands, in 1848 and returned in 1863 to make sketches for his publication, ‘Views in the Seven Ionian Islands’. He was impressed by the ‘immense views’ from ...
National Galleries of Scotland12d
Eric Harald Macbeth Robertson, Fleet Bay, Kirkcudbrightshire
Defined as a national area of exceptional scenery, Fleet Bay on the Solway Firth has been a popular location for painters. In 1921 Robertson spent the summer nearby, at Gatehouse of Fleet, with his ...