National Gallery of Scotland

While in Edinburgh yesterday I popped into the National Gallery on The Mound whose extensive collection is traditionally arranged chronologically (which suits me) allowing visitors to move through the centuries (at least up to the nineteenth – other modern art galleries are also available) from early religious images, through portraits commissioned by the wealthy (neither do much for me) to landscapes and scenes of social interaction (more to my taste); highlights here for me were a Bellotto view of Verona, Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral, Raeburn’s skating clergyman, and a couple of interesting Scottish works – Alexander Nasmyth’s picture of Princess Street circa 1825 and, newly acquired, Landseer’s iconic Monarch of the Glen.