Browse Artefacts (99 total)

Oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm

This painting initially formed the right half of the diptych 'Catacomb'. It was bought in 1987 when the artist was about to destroy it.

It possibly represents Mary Magdalene and Christ following the resurrection…

Oil on wood, 76.2 x 66 cm

Artist: John Alexander

Labelled as being a portrait of Robert Sibbald, but there is no evidence that this is the case.

Oil on canvas, 121 x 170 cm

The artist has used the finding of a toy submarine on mud-flats off the north German coast and the poetic sound of an old cargo ship, the 'Naboland', to create an unknown, parallel world, Naboland. In this painting he…

Oil on wooden panel, 19 x 39 cm

Artist: Peter MacGregor Wilson

Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 53.3 cm

4th Earl and 1st Duke of Perth, James Drummond succeeded to the title in 1675. He was a supporter of the Royalists and a persecutor of the Covenanters which resulted in his becoming a figure of fear and hate…

Oil on canvas, 90 x 80 cm

Artist: Mark Roscoe

Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 66 cm

Alexander Dick was the third son of Sir William Cunningham of Caprington, Ayrshire, and Janet, only child of Sir James Dick of Prestonfield, Edinburgh. He studied medicine in Edinburgh and Leyden, obtaining a MD from…

Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 71 cm

This remarkable man, who steeped all his life in the ways of the countryside and its sporting pursuits, was above all a most accomplished physician. Stanley Davidson was President of the College for four years,…

Oil on canvas, 83.8 x 71 cm

William Cullen (1710–1790) was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, and educated at Grammar School and Glasgow College before being apprenticed to Mr Nisbet, a surgeon apothecary. At the age of 19 he became a surgeon on a…

Oil on canvas, 95 x 79 cm

John Croom had an impressive Edinburgh medical pedigree. His grandfather (also Sir John Halliday Croom) was professor of midwifery in the University of Edinburgh and his father, Dr David Halliday Croom, was a respected…