Scottish National Portrait Gallery

History

The Creative Chemistry of a Photography Duo from the 1840s

In 1840s Edinburgh, painter David Octavius Hill and engineer Robert Adamson formed the city's first photography studio, which created thousands of images until Adamson's sudden death.

News

The National Galleries of Scotland Is Digitizing Its 94,000-Piece Collection

Since the start of this month, about 40,000 images of works are available on the relaunched NGS website.

Opinion

Required Reading: iPad Art Apps and More

This week, the anti-slavery origins of the Christmas tree in the US, iPad art apps, Ai Weiwei documentary, Georgian architecture, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, danger in Pompeii, the state of the New Orleans art scene and Stocking.