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Top Artists

Titian

Titian

Claude Monet

Claude Monet

James McNeill Whistler

James McNeill Whistler

Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne

El Greco

El Greco

15 artworks

Famous Paintings in the National Galleries Scotland

A nude female figure with long reddish hair wringing it with both hands stands in water above her knees, with a scallop shell near her thigh and a soft blue sky behind.

Venus Anadyomene

Titian

Four ballet dancers in pale tutus cluster closely on the right side of a rehearsal room with a large mirror reflecting a blurred figure in the background.

A Group of Dancers

Edgar Degas

A landscape painting showing Montagne Sainte-Victoire with jagged slopes, broad fields, bare tree branches, and a pale blue sky.

Montagne Sainte-Victoire

Paul Cézanne

A waist-up figure of Christ with long hair and beard raises his right hand in blessing and rests his left on a transparent globe, wearing red and blue robes against a dark background.

Christ Blessing (‘the Saviour Of The World’)

El Greco

Portrait of a peasant woman wearing a large white ruffled cap, facing forward with a serious expression against a dark background.

Head of a Peasant Woman

Vincent van Gogh

Sunlit palaces line the Grand Canal with a gondolier in a red cap propelling a black boat, figures on the embankment, and Santa Maria della Salute dome in the distance.

The Grand Canal from the Campo San Vio, Venice

Canaletto

A young man crowned with leaves plays a double pipe beside a woman in white and pink, with three sleeping infants and a winged child near a broken tree.

The Three Ages of Man

Titian

Two haystacks stand in a snowy field with long blue shadows and a warm peach sky in the background.

Haystacks- Snow Effect

Claude Monet

An old woman wearing a white headscarf cooks eggs in a pan on a table filled with kitchen objects, while a boy beside her holds a melon and a glass flask.

An Old Woman Cooking Eggs

Diego Velázquez

A man holds a loaf of bread and gestures toward a boy offering fish and bread, surrounded by figures in robes in a rocky landscape with a distant crowd.

The Miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Full-length portrait of Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington, wearing armor and a white fur-edged robe with a red velvet lining, holding a helmet.

Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington, 1600 -

Anthony van Dyck

A row of tall poplar trees along the right edge reflected in the calm river Epte under a pale blue sky with sunlit clouds.

Poplars on the Epte

Claude Monet

A man stands alone in a grey and green palette, half-turned with a soft cap in his left hand.

Arrangement in Grey and Green. Portrait of John James Cowan

James McNeill Whistler

Portrait of Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, a young man in a red coat with loose hair, captured in a moment of life.

Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, later 10th Duke of Hamilton and 7th Duke of Brandon (1767 - 1852)

Sir Joshua Reynolds

A portrait of John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, dressed in ceremonial robes with a dignified expression.

John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll

Thomas Gainsborough