Built in the shell of the former Holyrood Free Church and Duchess of Gordon's School, the Gallery provides purpose-built, state-of-the-art facilities to enable a programme of changing exhibitions of the most delicate works of art from the Royal Collection to be shown in Scotland for the first time. 

Forthcoming Events:

30 April 2010 – 9 January 2011

 

This exhibition brings together 42 remarkable landscapes from the ‘golden age’ of Dutch 17th-century painting. Following the Protestant Reformation, landscape painting was no longer confined to the background of a religious narrative, but gained an independent status and currency in its own right. Artists turned to the countryside and to the sea to convey a pride in their homeland – the newly reformed Dutch Republic.

 

While some painters looked to their native surroundings for subject-matter, others found inspiration in the mountainous vistas and golden light of Italy. The exhibition includes outstanding works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Aelbert Cuyp, Nicolaes Berchem and Meyndert Hobbema.

1 November to 31 March
09:30-16:30 (last admission 15:30)

1 April to 31 October
09:30-18:00 (last admission 17:00)

The Queen's Gallery is closed

12-29 April 2010
25-26 December 2010