Portraits and Figures

Personal stories and narratives expressed by a selection of artists through figurative and portrait paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture.

Through September and into October 2025.

  • girl with a parrot

    Sir Matthew Smith

    Girl with Parrot

  • woman begging

    Joan Eardley RSA

    Venetian Beggar Woman, 1948-49

  • figure in a landscape

    William Crosbie

    Nude

  • a serving girl

    Sir John Lavery RA RSA RHA

    A Serving Girl, 1888

  • man's head

    Alison Watt OBE FRSE RSA

    Portrait of a Young Man

  • figures

    John Byrne

    A Village Wedding, 1962

  • a figure playing a concertina

    Alfred Wolmark

    The Concertina Player, 1904

  • beggars

    Joan Eardley RSA

    Beggars in Venice, 1948-49

  • a figure

    Annie French

    The Pious Maid

  • landscape with figures

    Albert Andre

    La Ravin de la Fausse Monnaie

  • woman by a window

    Lesley Banks

    The Lace Curtain

  • figures pulling a boat

    Maurice Grieffenhagen RA

    Twilight

  • figures and sheep

    George Henry

    On the South Downs

  • woman

    Craig Mulholland

    Catalyst, 1993

  • garden scene

    William Kennedy

    Un Esquisses du Printemps

  • man by a waterfall

    Steven Campbell

    The Chinese Clam, c. 1986

  • pregnant woman

    Peter Lanyon

    Pregnant Nude on Couch, Corsham, 1959

  • man with a megaphone

    Stephen Conroy

    Megaphone Man

  • a boxer

    Paul McPhail

    The Boxer, 1990

  • figures

    Elisabeth Frink DBE RA

    Jason & The Golden Fleece

  • figure

    Alison Watt OBE FRSE RSA

    Study

  • girl in a red dress

    Joan Eardley RSA

    Girl in Red Dress

  • street scene

    Arthur Melville

    The Netherbow, Edinburgh

  • female figure

    Bernard Meninsky

    Standing Nude

  • figures on a staircase

    David Bomberg

    Staircase (Sappers) 1918

  • Vincent Butler RSA

    Reclining Figure

  • landscape

    James Paterson PPRSW RSA

    Moniaive (River, Figure & Sheep)

  • woman

    John Duncan Fergusson

    La Parisienne

  • figure with a spear

    Euan Uglow

    The Egyptian Spearess

  • woman dancing

    John Duncan Fergusson

    Rhythm

  • two women

    Sir Jacob Epstein

    Princess Sunita & her sister, c. 1920

  • female

    Fred Crayk

    Female Study

  • man's head

    Duncan Grant

    Head of George Mallory

  • man

    Steven Campbell

    Study of a Man

  • a dancer

    Georg Tappert

    Girl in High Heels, c.1920

  • street scene

    Patrick Downie

    The Briggait, Glasgow, 1891

  • figure

    John Duncan Fergusson

    Meditation

  • figure in a tree

    Anthony Fry

    Krishna in a tree

  • boy in a wood

    Heather Nevay

    A Boy with a House in a Wood

  • figures at night

    James Pryde

    The Night Raid, Coventry

  • woman with a cat

    Joan Eardley RSA

    Woman with Cat (Jeannie)

  • figures on a beach

    James Kay RSA RSW

    Bathing Parade

  • schoolboy

    Fyffe Christie

    Schoolboy

  • two figures

    Anthony Fry

    Two Nudes in a landscape

  • woman with tea table

    Percy Wyndham Lewis

    Girl at a Tea Table, 1943

  • figures

    Jessie M. King

    The Coffer for Which Men would give their Sons

  • woman's head

    John Duncan Fergusson

    A Study of Margaret Morris, London, 1916

  • woman at a market

    George Leslie Hunter (attributed)

    Woman at a Market

  • a baby

    Joan Eardley RSA

    Baby in blue

  • man standing

    Keith Vaughan

    Figure Study, c. 1950

  • head

    Ken Currie

    Study for Scottish Stoics, 1989

  • figures

    Sir Robin Philipson RA

    Falling Figures

  • figure

    Henri Gaudier Brzeska

    Seated Female Nude, 1913

  • woman in a hat

    Samuel John Peploe

    Woman in a Hat

  • man with thorns

    Robert Colquhoun

    Man with Head of Thorns, c. 1959

  • woman

    John Bellany CBE RA

    Woman (under archway)

  • figure

    Patrick Hayman

    Dark Afternoon by the Sea, 1966

  • female figure

    Eric Schilsky

    Standing Nude

  • figure sitting

    Ned Owens

    Margo

  • girl with a cat

    Jankel Adler

    Girl with a Cat, 1944

  • figures

    Josef Herman

    Two Workers

  • woman

    James Stroudley

    Study of Bending Female

  • cat and man

    Edmund Blampied

    Cat Stretching For Butterfly

  • woman in a hat

    George Leslie Hunter

    Study of a Young Woman

  • man standing

    Robert MacBryde

    Male Life Study, c. 1938

  • boy sleeping

    Joan Eardley RSA

    Boy Sleeping

  • a miner

    Josef Herman

    Welsh Miner

  • figure

    George B. Innes

    Sitting Figure IX

  • woman's head

    Mark I' Anson

    Isla

  • woman at a table

    Auguste Serrure

    Portrait of a Lady

  • mother & child

    Jean Lurcat

    Mother & Child

  • figure working

    John Maxwell (attrib.)

    Figure Study

  • three figures

    Josef Herman

    Three Workers

  • head

    Margaret Morris

    Female Head, c. 1920's

  • figure

    George B. Innes

    Sitting Figure, arms over body

  • head of a man

    Felicien Rops

    Head of a Man

  • head

    Richard Brown

    Head of a Young Woman

  • girl in a field

    Louis B. Hurt

    Girl in a field

  • figure

    George B. Innes

    Sitting Figure VI (a)

  • head

    Robert Clatworthy RA

    Head, 1990

  • nude

    Peter Howson OBE

    Female Nude

  • study of a girl

    Margaret Morris

    Study of a Young Girl

  • woman sitting

    Robert Colquhoun

    Seated Female Nude, c. 1938

  • figure

    Peter Howson OBE

    Nude (blue)

  • a dancer

    Robert Truscott

    Giselle

  • figures

    Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA

    Stanley & Patricia on Cockmarsh Common

  • wartime scene

    Tim Collins

    The Hit Squad

  • mother & child

    Josef Herman

    Woman & Child (blue)

  • group of figures

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Group of Figures (verso two figures in a street)

  • figures

    Philip Naviasky

    Figure Sketches

  • woman's head

    Tom Macdonald

    Portrait of Betty Henderson, actress at The Unity Theatre, 1945

  • figures

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Figure working (verso figure under arch)

  • men wrestling

    Tom Macdonald

    The Wrestlers, 1964

  • sitting figure

    Vincent Butler RSA

    Sitting Female (green patina)

  • figure

    Walter Sickert

    Figure in Interior

  • figure in a wheelchair

    William McCance

    Figure in a Wheelchair, c. 1928

  • woman's head

    Unattributed

    Pensive Woman

  • head of a woman

    John Duncan Fergusson

    Head of a woman

  • woman

    Armand Rassenfosse

    Spleen

  • portrait of a woman

    Thomas Hickey

    Portrait of a Lady

  • figure sitting

    Vincent Butler RSA

    Sitting Female, hands clasped

  • woman's head

    Anna Brzezinska

    Ona (She)

  • man on a horse

    David Jones

    David Jones and Pepler on Pegasus

  • Exhibition on the walls

  • Exhibition on the walls

  • Exhibition on the walls

  • Exhibition on the walls

  • Exhibition on the walls

  • Exhibition on the walls

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