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 2012 we have on show The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania painted in 1849 by Sir Joseph Noel Paton.  The subject matter is based on a dreamy, twilight woodland scene from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream where Oberon and Titania argue over a changeling child.  According to Lewis Carroll, the author of the Alice in Wonderland stories, there are 167 fairies in the picture.

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 newly refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery which opened in December 2011, try their Blog.