Northern Lights : Aberdeen Art Gallery at the Fleming Collection

8 Sep 2015-27 Jan 2016

Overview

Master works from the collection of Aberdeen Art Gallery selected especially for the Fleming Collection, concentrating on works with a Scottish connection. Aberdeen Art Gallery’s outstanding collection demonstrates the city’s rich cultural heritage. The exhibition includes works by renowned Scottish portrait painters and artists. These include a 17th-century self-portrait by Aberdeen-born George Jamesone, regarded as Scotland’s first great portrait painter, and a portrait by Allan Ramsay, the premier Scottish portrait painter of the mid-18th century. There are works by the Aberdonian artists, John Philip and William Dyce and contemporary artist Calum Innes, who trained at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. Other highlights include Turner’s watercolour Caerlaverock Castle in Dumfriesshire and a flower study by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.