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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1860 - 1937. Author (1904)

Sir William Nicholson
James Boswell, 1740 - 1795. Diarist and biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson (1765)

George Willison
George Buchanan [Seòras Bochanan], 1506 - 1582. Historian, poet and reformer (1581)

Arnold Bronckorst
Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet (1787)

Alexander Nasmyth
James Macpherson, 1736 - 1796. Compiler of the poems of Ossian (After 1772)

Unknown
Professor John Wilson (nom de plume, 'Christopher North'), 1785 - 1854. Author and moral philosopher (About 1840)

Thomas Duncan
Thomas Carlyle, 1795 - 1881. Historian and essayist (About 1879)

Walter Greaves
Lobster (from 'The Scottish Bestiary') (Published 1986)

Steven Campbell
Alexander Reid, 1914 - 1982. Poet, playwright and editor (Dated 1954)

Nigel McIsaac
Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet (1786 - 1787)

Peter Taylor
Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet (1825 - 1828)

Alexander Nasmyth
Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet. (With Alexander Nasmyth, 1758 - 1840. Artist. At Rosslyn Castle) (1786)

Alexander Nasmyth
Robert Macqueen, Lord Braxfield, 1722 - 1799. Lord Justice-Clerk (About 1798)

Sir Henry Raeburn
The Celebration of the Birthday of James Hogg, 1770 - 1835 (1823/5)

Sir William Allan
Ian Rankin, b. 1960. Author (2000)

broad daylight (Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie)
The Kelvingrove Eight: Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray, Tom Leonard, Bernard MacLaverty, Liz Lochhead, Alan Spence, Jeff Torrington, Agnes Owens (2000)

Calum Colvin
Robin Jenkins, 1912 - 2005. Writer (2000)

Jennifer McRae
George Mackay Brown with Gypsy (1990)

Gunnie Moberg
Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet (1801)

John Beugo
Christopher Murray Grieve (pen name, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'), 1892 - 1978. Poet (1962)

Robert Heriot Westwater
George Douglas Brown (1869-1902). Writer (1903)

William Strang
Andrew Lang, 1844 - 1912. Poet and writer (1885)

Sir William Blake Richmond
Robert Crombie Saunders, 1914 - 1991. Poet (recto)

Hamish Lawrie
Robert Crombie Saunders, 1914 - 1991. Poet (verso)

Hamish Lawrie
Sir Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832. Novelist and poet (1831)

Sir Francis Grant
Sir Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832. Novelist and poet (Painted 1830)

Sir John Watson Gordon
Sir Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832. Novelist and poet (1805)

James Saxon
Sir Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832. Novelist and poet (After 1819)

James Howe
Sir Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832. Novelist and poet (After 1819)

Henry M. Baird
Sir Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832. Novelist and poet (About 1830)

Sir John Watson Gordon
Sir Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832. Novelist and poet (1838)

James Hall
Sir Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832. Novelist and poet (1829)

Colvin Smith
Robert Fergusson, 1750 - 1774. Poet (After 1770)

Unknown
William Drummond of Hawthornden, 1585 - 1649. Poet

Unknown
Anne MacVicar, Mrs James Grant of Laggan, 1755 - 1838. Writer (Dated 1824)

William Bewick
Edwin Muir, 1887 - 1959. Poet

John Stephens Orr
James Huntington Whyte, 1909 -1962. Editor of 'The Modern Scot' (1933)

David Foggie
Robert Crombie Saunders, 1914 - 1991. Poet (1942)

William Crosbie
Neil Gunn, 1891 - 1973. Novelist (1968)

John Maxie Bain
Iain Crichton Smith, 1928 - 1998. Poet (1980)

Alexander Moffat
Neil Munro, 1864 - 1930. Author (1903)

William Strang
James Kelman. b. 1946. Novelist (1994)

Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert
Allan Ramsay, 1684 - 1758. Poet (After 1717)

Unknown
William Creech, 1745 - 1815. Publisher and Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1806)

Sir Henry Raeburn
John Galt, 1779 - 1839. Novelist (Dated 1835)

Charles Grey
Duncan McLean and Irvine Welsh. Writers (1993)

Gunnie Moberg
James Thomson, 1700 - 1748. Poet (1726)

John Vanderbank
Sir John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, 1875 - 1940. Author and Governor General of Canada (Modelled 1935; cast 1940)

Thomas John Clapperton
Patrick Fraser Tytler, 1791 - 1849. Historian (About 1825)

Sir John Watson Gordon
Callum Macdonald, 1912 - 1999. Printer and publisher (1996)

Victoria Crowe
Ian Rankin, b 1960. Author (2013)

Guy Kinder
Ian Rankin, b. 1960. Author (2011)

Hamish Campbell
Edwin Morgan, 1920 - 2010. Poet (2008)

Joyce Gunn Cairns
Ian Hamilton Finlay (15 July 2003)

Norman McBeath
Alexander McCall Smith, b. 1948. Professor and author (2004)

Lucinda L. Mackay
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 - 1894. Essayist, Poet and Author (About 1874)

John Moffat
Illustration to Burns's Song 'Highland Mary'

Thomas Stothard
The Inauguration of Robert Burns as Poet Laureate of the Lodge (1846)

William Stewart Watson
Alexander McCall Smith, b. 1948. Professor and author (2010)

Evelyn Peffers
George Mackay Brown, 1921 - 1996. Poet (1985)

Pradip Malde

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