Essential Edinburgh City Tours
Edinburgh - Living City Education Pack
Visit:
Places of Interest
Shops, Pubs & Hotels
Streets
Community & Education
Churches
People
Architecture
Statues & Public Works of Art
Explore:
Edinburgh Castle
The Royal Mile
Princes Street
The New Town
The Water of Leith
Dean
Stockbridge
Canonmills
Broughton
Inverleith
Newhaven
Leith
image copyright Rachel Windsor
This plaque on 32 York Place remembers Henry Raeburn, painter and sometime developer, who lived and worked in this building. The studio was for some years the venue of annual displays of art by local painters, prior to the building of the galleries on the Mound.
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Links:
Henry Raeburn's paintings on Olga's Gallery
Sir Henry Raeburn in the History of Edinburgh by John Anderson 1858