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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Goya, born in Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, Spain, was an original and enigmatic artist, equally gifted as a painter and printmaker. His appointment in 1786 as painter to the Spanish King Charles IV followed ...