CATALOGUE, DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL, OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE BOARD OF MANUFACTURES. By W. B. JOHNSTONE, R.S.A., PRINCIPAL CURATOR AND KEEPER. By Authority. EIGHTEENTH EDITION. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY MURRAY AND GIBB, 1868. The DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Sir GEORGE GRANT SUTTIE, Bart. The Right Honble. Sir WILLIAM GIBSON-CRAIG, Bart. The LORD COLONSAY. The EARL OF CAITHNESS. JOHN STEELL, Esq., R.S.A. The EARL OF DALHOUSIE, K.T., G.C.B. DAVID OCTAVIUS HILL, Esq., R.S.A. The LORD ELCHO, M.P. Sir JAMES MATHESON, Bart., M.P. JAMES MONCREIFF, Esq., M.P., Dean of Faculty. The Right Honble. The LORD JUSTICE-GENERAL. Dr LYON PLAYFAIR, C.B. The Honble. Lord JERVISWOODE. Lord BARCAPLE. GEORGE YOUNG, Esq., M.P. Lieut.-Col. CHARLES FRANCIS MAXWELL. FRANCIS ABBOTT, Esq. Sir GEORGE HARVEY, P.R.S.A. JAMES T. GIBSON-CRAIG, Esq. ROBERT HORN, Esq. Sir WILLIAM STIRLING MAXWELL, Bart., M.P. Sir HUGH HUME CAMPBELL, Bart. EDWARD STRATHEARN GORDON, Esq., M.P. Secretary. The Honble. B. F. PRIMROSE. Principal Curator and Keeper. W. B. JOHNSTONE, R.S.A. NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND. THE Building within which the National Gallery Collection is placed, consists of two contiguous ranges of galleries, exactly similar in size, form, and construction, running from end to end of the building. It was designed and executed by the late eminent architect, William H. Playfair, Esq., and has been erected by the Board of Trustees for Manufactures in Scotland, out of their funds, aided by a grant from the Treasury, the valuable site having been made over for the purpose by the Lord Provost and Magistrates of the City, on most liberal and favourable terms. The Board, which owes its origin to the Treaty of Union, and has ever since existed for important national purposes, has, by Act of Parliament, been vested in perpetuity with the Trust of this Building, which is specially destined for receiving and exhibiting the National Collection of Works of Art-for the Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy,—and for the extension of the Board's School of Art, etc. etc. The Foundation Stone was laid by the late PRINCE CONSORT, on the 30th of August 1850, and the following appropriate and felicitous remarks are quoted from the Address His Royal Highness delivered on that occasion : "The building of which we have just begun the foundation, is a temple to be erected to the Fine Arts-the Fine Arts which have so important an influence upon the development of the mind and feeling of a people, and which are so generally taken as the type of the degree and character of that development, that it is on the fragments of the works of art come down to us from bygone nations, that we are wont to form our estimate of the state of their civilization, manners, customs, and religion. Let us hope that the impulse given to the culture of the Fine Arts in this country, and the daily |