Edinburgh - Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Paintings of some of the leading figures in Scottish history from the 16th century to the present day can be seen in the National Portrait Gallery at No. 2 Queen Street to the northeast of Princes Street. The highlight here is certainly the huge processional frieze (William Hole, 1898) showing Scotland's most famous personalities. Among the celebrities recorded in oil are Robert Burns (Nasmyth), Sir Walter Scott (Raeburn), David Hume (Ramsay), Sean Connery (John Bellany), Robert Louis Stevenson, James Watt and Mary Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie and Flora MacDonald, Lord Byron, Winston Churchill, Thomas Carlyle, Hugh McDiarmid, Muriel Spark and the Queen Mother. Portrait artists whose works are displayed here include Reynolds, Epstein, Tischbein, Kokoschka, Gainsborough, Moffat, Robert Heriot Westwater and James Guthrie. Historical landscapes such as studies of Falkland Palace, Seton Palace and Peter Tilleman's "Battle of Glenshiels" are also on show.