Although NLS does not collect paintings, there are six hanging in our George IV Bridge building (though not in public spaces) and now you can see them all through the BBC — Your Paintings website. They all relate in some way to the history of the Library. My favourite painting is this portrait of Thomas Ruddiman. He joined […]
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Jack Vettriano
Jack Vettriano has had a meteoric rise to fame emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields. A Scotsman of Italian descent, he left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer working down the Fife coalfields. For his twenty-first birthday a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and from then on, he […]