Masterpiece Series

Each Spring, Duff House is fortunate to get a Masterpiece from the National Galleries of Scotland for the summer season. Past loans have included works by masters including Botticelli, Titian and Rembrandt. This year in 2011 we were fortunate to have a landscape by one of the most famous landscape painters of all, John Constable. His work, The Vale of Dedham painted in 1828 was on display in the Drawing Room and has sadly just returned to Edinburgh.

As a way of celebrating Constable's highly personal interpretation of his childhood Suffolk countryside, we invited two young Scottish artists also working around the themes of landscape and place, to exhibit some of their work during this year's visual arts festival. But painter Nicola Williams and film maker and photographer Callum Kellie are just two examples of contemporary artists associated with the north east whose work has been shown at Duff House.

We are currently planning the masterpiece series for 2012-14 and further details will be available online soon. Meanwhile further information on the national collections at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh is available online. If you want to find out more about the reopening of the new Scottish National Portrait Gallery in December why not try their Blog.