![]() ![]() Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, geologist Sir David Brewster, natural philosopher Sir Charles Lyell, geologist Sir Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, Field-Marshal James Andrew Ramsay, 10th Earl and 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Govenor General of India Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay, historian and statesman Professor Sir William Hamilton, metaphysician Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, statesman Rev Thomas Chalmers, social reformer Sir David Wilkie, painter Rev John Thomson of Duddingston, landscape painter Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Admiral Robert Stevenson, lighthouse engineer Professor Dugald Stewart, philosopher Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, statesman Thomas Campbell, poet and critic. You may find it useful to see the various historical figures with their contemporaries. ![]() Note that the pictures here overlap to a certain extent in order to ensure that all the historical characters are included. The pictures in this page (starting above) are of the chronological sequence (running backwards in time) of the figures in the paintings. It was created by the artist William Hole in 1898 and depicts 155 men and women deemed in the late 19th century as the greatest in Scottish history.Īlthough photography is not allowed in the rest of the National Portrait Gallery, it is permitted in the main hall. ![]() The refurbishment included improving a frieze which goes round the Main Hall of the Gallery below the first-floor balustrade. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Queen Street, Edinburgh opened in 1889 and underwent a major refurbishment in 2009 to 2011. Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist David Livingstone, missionary and explorer Sir James Young Simpson, discoverer of chloroform Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, geologist Sir David Brewster, natural philosopher Sir Charles Lyell, geologist Sir Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, Field-Marshal Scottish National Portrait Gallery Frieze Famous Scots - Scottish National Portrait Gallery ![]()
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