DOI Heft:
No. 348 (March 1922)
DOI Artikel:The Kirkhope bequest to the National Gallery of Scottland
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21395#0144
THE KIRKHOPE BEQUEST TO THE
NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOT-
LAND. £) 0 & & 0
THE modern French and Dutch section
of the National Gallery of Scotland may
be said to have been founded by Mr. John
A. Laird, a Scotsman resident in London,
when in 1911 he bequeathed to it the choice
of his collection of pictures of these Schools.
Previous to that year, with the exception of
one or two small pictures acquired by pur-
chase, the nineteenth century painters of
Holland and France were quite unrepre-
sented—and this, too, notwithstanding the
considerable number of Dutch and Barbi-
zon pictures privately owned in Scotland.
This Laird Bequest, then, was a good be-
ginning, and for ten years constituted a
fairly good representation of the Art of
France and the Netherlands. Now, how-
ever, it is more than that, as, thanks to the
recent generous Bequest of Dr. John Kirk-
hope, it may vie with the Glasgow Gallery
as the best out of London, 000
It is true that it has, so far, no example of
the great peasant painter Millet—a fine
charcoal drawing excepted—or of the
great paysagiste Rousseau, and that its
Corots are not of the importance (with one
exception) of the Glasgow pictures, but
nevertheless for general adequacy of repre-
sentation it now lags little behind the
Western city, and in one or two respects
even excels it. Both galleries, however,
are still without any examples of the school
of French Impressionism, of which Manet,
Monet, and Degas are the exemplars. 0
The brothers John and James Kirkhope
were well-known citizens of Edinburgh and
were both engaged in business pm suits
there. John, the elder, who formed the col-
lection of pictures, was also an enthusiastic
amateur of music, and his services to that
art locally, were acknowledged a few years
ago by the University of Edinburgh, which
conferred on him the degree of Doctor of
Music. James, the younger of the two,
formed a fine collection of prints. The
latter predeceasing his brother by a year or
“ HUDIBRAS AND RALPHO VISITING THE
ASTROLOGER.” OIL PAINTING BY SIR
W. FETTES DOUGLAS, P.R.S.A.
127
NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOT-
LAND. £) 0 & & 0
THE modern French and Dutch section
of the National Gallery of Scotland may
be said to have been founded by Mr. John
A. Laird, a Scotsman resident in London,
when in 1911 he bequeathed to it the choice
of his collection of pictures of these Schools.
Previous to that year, with the exception of
one or two small pictures acquired by pur-
chase, the nineteenth century painters of
Holland and France were quite unrepre-
sented—and this, too, notwithstanding the
considerable number of Dutch and Barbi-
zon pictures privately owned in Scotland.
This Laird Bequest, then, was a good be-
ginning, and for ten years constituted a
fairly good representation of the Art of
France and the Netherlands. Now, how-
ever, it is more than that, as, thanks to the
recent generous Bequest of Dr. John Kirk-
hope, it may vie with the Glasgow Gallery
as the best out of London, 000
It is true that it has, so far, no example of
the great peasant painter Millet—a fine
charcoal drawing excepted—or of the
great paysagiste Rousseau, and that its
Corots are not of the importance (with one
exception) of the Glasgow pictures, but
nevertheless for general adequacy of repre-
sentation it now lags little behind the
Western city, and in one or two respects
even excels it. Both galleries, however,
are still without any examples of the school
of French Impressionism, of which Manet,
Monet, and Degas are the exemplars. 0
The brothers John and James Kirkhope
were well-known citizens of Edinburgh and
were both engaged in business pm suits
there. John, the elder, who formed the col-
lection of pictures, was also an enthusiastic
amateur of music, and his services to that
art locally, were acknowledged a few years
ago by the University of Edinburgh, which
conferred on him the degree of Doctor of
Music. James, the younger of the two,
formed a fine collection of prints. The
latter predeceasing his brother by a year or
“ HUDIBRAS AND RALPHO VISITING THE
ASTROLOGER.” OIL PAINTING BY SIR
W. FETTES DOUGLAS, P.R.S.A.
127