National Galleries Scotland: Portrait

About this audio guide

This guide to the National Galleries of Scotland's Portrait building centers on The Golfers, painted by Edinburgh artist Charles Lees in eighteen forty-seven to depict a match played three years earlier on the Old Course at St Andrews. You'll hear about the four gentlemen golfers, the crowd of caddies and local worthies Lees insisted on making individually recognisable, and his unusual use of early photographs to get each face right. See how many of the more than fifty figures in the crowd you can pick out as real, named men.