Re-Presenting Mary Queen of Scots
Join Doctor Anna Groundwater, Principal Curator of Renaissance and Early Modern history at National Museums Scotland, to hear about what the Mary, Queen of Scots Casket reveals about the Scottish Queen’s fascinating and multifaceted life. When we think of Mary, all too often we think of her dressed in black
Kitchen Vegetables, Thomas Stuart Smith
This is one of many small works in oils, by the artist Thomas Stuart Smith (1815-1869) founder of the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum through his bequest. According to his fellow artist James Orrock, Smith was ‘a man who could paint anything’ and the beauty of his brush work,
The Quizeum, Series 2, Episode 4 – The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Son_XiFNfKw
The Fellah from Kinneh
October is Black History Month, and today’s image is one of the three surviving portraits of black men by Thomas Stuart Smith, artist and founder of the Smith Art Gallery and Museum. The Fellah from Kinneh, or Qena, north of Luxor on the Nile delta was a native Egyptian who
William Gear (1915 – 1997)
William Gear was the son of a coal miner from Methil in Fife, where he grew up. He attended Edinburgh College of Art, 1932 – 1936. A travelling scholarship took him the Paris where he studied with Ferdinand Leger. He won a Festival of Britain purchase prize in 1951 and
The Fiery Cross by James Drummond (1816 – 1877)
The Fiery Cross by James Drummond, is one of the great history paintings in the Smith collection, acquired through a bequest of the artist, a few years after the Smith opened, in 1877. It shows the ‘Fiery Cross’, a Celtic signal used as a call to arms, arriving at Stirling
Counting the Cash – The Stirling Smith Bank Note Collection
Two of our volunteers, Ben and Rachel have been working on scanning and documenting our bank note collection. Apart from local banks we also have notes from the American Revolutionary war 1771 – 1783 and the American Civil war; 1861-1865. Collecting mementos of war in the form of notes
Art UK: Art Detectives identify Hamilton Macallum painting location.
The Public Catalogue Foundation now known as Art UK has, over the past ten years photographed 210,000 publicly owned oil paintings from 3,000 collections in the UK. All of which are available to see on the PCF website. The launch of the ‘Art Detective’ programme has opened the doors for