"Significant Others"
2000-10-21 until 2001-01-07
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Edinburgh, , UK United Kingdom

This exhibition gathers together three centuries of portraits by Scottish artists of the men, women and children for whom they reserved their strongest and most private feelings: spouses and lovers, mothers and fathers, children and friends. Images made by an artist of family members and close associates are often amongst the most compelling human representations ever made.

The vast majority of portraits are commissioned works, a professional exchange of time and expertise for money, but for these Significant Others the impetus is other: affective and familial, the relationship itself providing both the cause and the subject of the exercise. The collections of the Portrait Gallery are rich in such images, some of which are well known with others rarely seen. Ranging from the exceptionally intimate to the outrageously glamorous, this exhibition continues the Portrait Gallerys millennial theme of celebrating the lives of ordinary people.

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