Edinburgh - National Gallery of Scotland

Dutch and Flemish art of the 17th century occupy galleries 6,7 and 9 with portraits by Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Rubens' "Reconciliation between Jacob and Esau", a landscape by Ruesdael, Elsheimer's "Stoning of St Stephen", Vermeer's "Christ in the House of Martha and Mary" and van Dyck's "Martyrdom of St Sebastian".

Gallery 8 in the National Gallery of Scotland is reserved for touring exhibitions, but every January there is a display of watercolors by William Turner. Because of their sensitivity to light, they can be displayed only in the winter.

Galleries 10 to 12 (18th/19th century) house portraits by Gainsborough, the Anglo-American Benjamin West and Raeburn (including his portrait of "Reverend Robert Walker" skating on Duddingston Loch), a still life by Chardin, Watteau's "Feast in Venice", Delacroix's "Chess Player", landscapes by Constable and the "Medicus" by Goya.

To the southwest by Belford Road, the Neo-classical National Gallery of Modern Art, which was opened in 1984, displays paintings by Henry Matisse, George Braque, Paul Klee, Otto Dix and Pablo Picasso ("Mother and Child" from the "Blue Period"), surrealistic works by Rene Magritte, Joan Miró, Max Ernst and Giacometti, contemporary paintings by Bruce McLean, Callum Innes, John Bellany, Kate Whiteford and Gwen Hardie and sculptures by Barlach, Epstein, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Matthew Smith, George Rickey and David Hockney. The "Scottish Colorists", such as Peploe, Cadell, Hunter and Fergusson, are also represented.

The New Wing, opened in 1978, is devoted to Scottish painting and display works by the landscape painter Sir William McTaggart ("The Storm"), portraits by Sir James Guthrie and by Allan Ramsay the Younger (1713-1784) who enjoyed a successful career at the court of George III in London.

Masterpieces on the first floor of the National Gallery of Scotland include some Renaissance altar paintings and Raffael's "Madonna", in addition to some works by European masters from the 18th and 19th century, such as van Gogh's "Olive Trees" and "Dutch Peasant Girl", impressions of the South Seas by Gauguin, Degas' "Diego Martinelli", Rodin's "Young Mother" and Degas' "Grand Arabesque" and "The Bath Tub". Impressionists such as Monet ("Haystacks"), Seurat, Sisley, Pisarro, Renoir ("Mother and Child") and Cézanne ("Mont Ste-Victoire") are also represented.

The highlights of galleries 3 and 4 are El Greco's "Savior of the World", a portrait of a woman by the 19-year-old Velázquez and Claude Lorraine's "Apollo and the Muse".

Gallery 5 contains Nicholas Poussin's "Seven Sacraments".

Galleries 1 and 2 on the ground floor display work by Venetian artists of the 16th century including Jacopo Bassano's "The Adoration of the Kings" as well as Titian's "The Three Ages of Man" and "Diana and Acteaon".