Nqe lus piav txog kev nyiam
National Portrait Gallery ntawm Scotland yog chav kos duab hauv Scottish peev ntawm Edinburgh. Nws nyob hauv National Collection of Portraits thiab tseem nyob hauv National Collection of Photography.
Qhov kev nthuav tawm yog raws li kev sau cov duab ntawm cov neeg Scots zoo, sau los ntawm Earl ntawm Buchan thaum kawg ntawm lub xyoo pua puv 18. Xyoo 19th, lub tswv yim ntawm kev tsim cov duab kos duab hauv tebchaws tau nthuav dav tham hauv zej zog, tab sis tsoomfwv tsis maj nrawm faib nyiaj rau kev tsim cov chaw ua yeeb yam no. John Richie Findlay, tus tswv ntawm cov ntawv xov xwm Scotsman thiab muaj lub siab dawb siab zoo, tau coj lub tswv yim no mus rau lub neej thiab cov duab tau qhib nws lub qhov rooj rau cov pej xeem xyoo 1889.
Findlay ntiav kws kes duab vajtse Robert Anderson los tsim lub tsev. Anderson tsim lub tsev niaj hnub tsim tshwj xeeb los rau tsev ua duab kos duab uas muaj kev sib tw zoo tshaj plaws nyob hauv Europe thiab Amelikas thaum lub sijhawm ntawd.
Lub tsev nws tus kheej tau tsim nyob rau hauv cov qauv neo-gothic, siv cov xuab zeb liab ua cov khoom siv. Sab nraub qaum teb thiab sab hnub tuaj tau nplua nuj nrog cov duab puab uas piav txog cov kws sau paj huam, cov vaj ntxwv thiab cov neeg hauv xeev. Cov pej thuam ntawm tus tub rog William Wallace thiab King Robert the Bruce "tus neeg zov" nkag mus rau hauv lub tsev.
Sab hauv, muaj cov duab ntawm Scots nto moo los ntawm txhua lub sijhawm: vajntxwv thaum ub thiab cov neeg hauv tebchaws, cov kws tshaj lij, kws tshawb fawb, kws sau paj huam thiab kws sau ntawv, ntxiv rau peb cov neeg nyob ib puag ncig.
Tam sim no hauv kev sau cov duab muaj 1113 daim duab, 582 daim duab, 194 duab puab thiab 577 daim duab.
