The Fleming Collection is the finest collection of Scottish art outside public institutions, comprising over 600 works, with a particularly strong 20th Century collection. It dates back to 1968 when investment bank Robert Fleming & Co, which had been founded in 1873, began to acquire Scottish art to hang in its offices worldwide. Following the sale of the bank in 2000, the Collection was vested, under the guidance of the family, in the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation. It previously had a gallery in Berkeley Square in London, but since 2015 has run as a ‘Museum without Walls’ developing a programme of touring exhibitions, as well loans of individual works to support both long-term displays and temporary exhibitions in public institutions.

Artists featured in this Curation: William Crozier (1893–1930), David Alison (1882–1955), Mary Nicol Neill Armour (1902–2000), Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004), John Bellany (1942–2013), Elizabeth V. Blackadder (1931–2021), Robert Henderson Blyth (1919–1970), Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), John Byrne (1940–2023), Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883–1937), and 42 more
52 artworks
Edinburgh from Castle Street
Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Edinburgh from Castle Street 1930

William Crozier (1893–1930)

Oil on board

H 57.2 x W 43.2 cm

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Woman Reading by a Window
© the copyright holder. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Woman Reading by a Window c.1925

David Alison (1882–1955)

Oil on canvas

H 62.2 x W 62.2 cm

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Elizabeth
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Elizabeth 1951

Mary Nicol Neill Armour (1902–2000)

Oil on canvas

H 81.2 x W 56 cm

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The Blue Studio
© Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

The Blue Studio c.1947–1948

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004)

Oil on canvas

H 91 x W 122 cm

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Self Portrait
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Self Portrait 1963

John Bellany (1942–2013)

Oil on canvas

H 61 x W 101.6 cm

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Irises, Brown and Yellow
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Irises, Brown and Yellow c.1990

Elizabeth V. Blackadder (1931–2021)

Watercolour on paper

H 63.5 x W 81.2 cm

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Cupar, Fife
© the copyright holder. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Cupar, Fife 1969

Robert Henderson Blyth (1919–1970)

Oil on canvas

H 105.4 x W 100.3 cm

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Piccadilly Circus
Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Piccadilly Circus 1915

Muirhead Bone (1876–1953)

Chalk on paper

H 29.5 x W 37 cm

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Scottish Boy on the Beach with Japanese Wonder Shell
© John Byrne. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Scottish Boy on the Beach with Japanese Wonder Shell 1995

John Byrne (1940–2023)

Oil (?) & mixed media on board

H 96.5 x W 121.9 cm

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The Dunara Castle at Iona
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The Dunara Castle at Iona c.1929

Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883–1937)

Oil on millboard

H 38.1 x W 45.7 cm

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The Blue Pool
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The Blue Pool

David Young Cameron (1865–1945)

Oil on canvas

H 34.5 x W 24.5 cm

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On a Raised Beach
© the artist's estate. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

On a Raised Beach

June Crisfield Chapman (1934–2017)

Wood engraving print

H 19 x W 14.5 cm

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Head of Absalom
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Head of Absalom 1960

Robert Colquhoun (1914–1962)

Lithograph on paper

H 34 x W 29 cm

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The Garden
© the artist. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

The Garden 1986

Stephen Conroy (b.1964)

Oil on canvas

H 108 x W 137 cm

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Self Portrait with Artist's First Wife, Nancy
© the artist's estate. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Self Portrait with Artist's First Wife, Nancy 1923

James Cowie (1886–1956)

Oil on canvas

H 81.5 x W 81.5 cm

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Reclining Lady in White
© estate of Stanley Cursiter. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Reclining Lady in White c.1925

Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976)

Oil on panel

H 26.7 x W 36.9 cm

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The Turn of the Tide
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The Turn of the Tide

John Duncan (1866–1945)

Tempera on panel

H 44.4 x W 59.7 cm

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Winter Sea III
© the Eardley estate. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Winter Sea III 1959

Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley (1921–1963)

Oil on canvas (?)

H 100.3 x W 159.4 cm

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Jonquils and Silver
© Courtesy of Culture Perth & Kinross Museums & Galleries.. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Jonquils and Silver 1905

John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961)

Oil on canvas

H 50.8 x W 45.7 cm

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Join the Saint Juste Vigilantes
© By courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Join the Saint Juste Vigilantes 1983

Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006)

Print on card

H 19.3 x W 6.6 cm

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Shetland Croft
© the artist's estate. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Shetland Croft 1962

Ian Fleming (1906–1994)

Oil on canvas

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Two Ladies
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Two Ladies c.1895

Annie French (1872–1965)

Ink & wash on paper

H 20.6 x W 12.5 cm

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Portrait of a Young Man
© the artist. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Portrait of a Young Man 1991

Alexandra Gardner (b.1945)

Oil on board

H 33 x W 28 cm

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The Cattle Fence
© Royal Scottish Academy / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

The Cattle Fence

William George Gillies (1898–1973)

Oil on canvas

H 46 x W 61.5 cm

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The Eve of the Battle of the Somme
© estate of the artist. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

The Eve of the Battle of the Somme 1916

Herbert James Gunn (1893–1964)

Oil on canvas

H 83.8 x W 91.4 cm

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The Fleet
© Peter Howson. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

The Fleet 1992

Peter Howson (b.1958)

Oil on canvas

H 86.3 x W 114.9 cm

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Peonies in a Chinese Vase
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Peonies in a Chinese Vase c.1928

George Leslie Hunter (1877–1931)

Oil on board

H 61 x W 50.8 cm

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A Cellist
© The William Syson Foundation. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

A Cellist c.1925

Beatrice M. L. Huntington (1889–1988)

Oil

H 60 x W 46 cm

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Reading Aloud, Margery and the Boys
© the artist's estate. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Reading Aloud, Margery and the Boys 1929

William Oliphant Hutchison (1889–1970)

Oil on canvas

H 92.5 x W 76.2 cm

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Cecile Walton
© the artist's estate. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Cecile Walton 1918

Dorothy Johnstone (1892–1980)

Oil on canvas

H 106.7 x W 152.4 cm

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Labourers
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Labourers 1947

Ernest Stephen Lumsden (1883–1948)

Oil on canvas

H 50.7 x W 61 cm

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In the Piazetta, Venice
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In the Piazetta, Venice c.1908

Charles Hodge Mackie (1862–1920)

Oil on canvas

H 38.1 x W 50.8 cm

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Butterfly Flower, Bowling
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Butterfly Flower, Bowling 1912

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928)

Watercolour on paper

H 26 x W 20 cm

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San Francisco
© Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

San Francisco 1942

James McBey (1883–1959)

Watercolour on paper

H 28 x W 44 cm

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Black Box and Bronze Head
© the artist's estate. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Black Box and Bronze Head 1975

David McClure (1926–1998)

Oil on canvas

H 99 x W 127 cm

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Passing in the Night
© the estate of Margaret Mellis. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Passing in the Night 1994

Margaret Mellis (1914–2009)

Found painted wood

H 23 x W 35 cm

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Anticoli Corrado with Mountain Snow
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Anticoli Corrado with Mountain Snow 1954

David Alan Redpath Michie (1928–2015)

Gouache on paper

H 42 x W 56 cm

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Ca d'Oro, Venezia
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Ca d'Oro, Venezia 1977

Alberto Morrocco (1917–1998)

Oil on canvas

H 96.5 x W 96.5 cm

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The Artist's Daughter, Nancy, as Pierrot
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The Artist's Daughter, Nancy, as Pierrot c.1910

Mabel Nicholson (1871–1918)

Oil on canvas

H 101.6 x W 63.5 cm

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Building of Tongland Dam
© the copyright holder. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Building of Tongland Dam 1928

Charles Oppenheimer (1875–1961)

Oil on canvas

H 121.9 x W 182.9 cm

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The Uncivilised Cat
© the copyright holder. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

The Uncivilised Cat 1930

Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980)

Tempera on board

H 52.7 x W 47.6 cm

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Glamis Village in April
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Glamis Village in April 1946

James McIntosh Patrick (1907–1998)

Oil on canvas

H 41.9 x W 55.9 cm

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Flowers, Fruit and Checked Cloth
© the artist's estate. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Flowers, Fruit and Checked Cloth

Denis Frederic Neal Peploe (1914–1993)

Oil on canvas

H 91.5 x W 66 cm

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Green Sea, Iona
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Green Sea, Iona 1935

Samuel John Peploe (1871–1935)

Oil on canvas

H 50.8 x W 60.9 cm

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Mexican Altar
© the artist's estate. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Mexican Altar c.1968

Robin Philipson (1916–1992)

Oil on canvas

H 107.8 x W 83.8 cm

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The Unknown Corner
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The Unknown Corner 1912

James Ferrier Pryde (1866–1941)

Oil on canvas

H 86.3 x W 71.2 cm

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The Parasol and the Pierrot
© the copyright holder. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

The Parasol and the Pierrot 1922

John Milne Purvis (1885–1961)

Oil on canvas

H 91.4 x W 71.1 cm

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Still Life, the Orange Chair
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Still Life, the Orange Chair c.1944

Anne Redpath (1895–1965)

Oil on board

H 73.7 x W 53.5 cm

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Robert the Bruce and de Bohun
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Robert the Bruce and de Bohun

Eric Harald Macbeth Robertson (1887–1941)

Oil on canvas

H 68.5 x W 86.5 cm

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Tigridia
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Tigridia 20th C

Mary Newbery Sturrock (1892–1985)

Mixed media on paper

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Breton Harvest
© the artist's estate. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

Breton Harvest c.1920

David Macbeth Sutherland (1883–1973)

Oil on panel

H 30.4 x W 37.4 cm

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At the Party
© Jack Vettriano. Image credit: The Fleming Collection

At the Party c.1990

Jack Vettriano (b.1951)

Oil on canvas

H 45.7 x W 61 cm

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