The Portland Gallery is an art gallery

Art gallery

An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...

 in Westminster

City of Westminster

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, London

London

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, located near Piccadilly Circus

Piccadilly Circus

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. It was established in 1984 by the Honourable Thomas Hewlett, son of the Conservative Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 Thomas Henry Hewlett.

The gallery specializes in twentieth century and contemporary Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 paintings, and focuses largely on the work of the four "Scottish Colourists

Scottish Colourists

The Scottish Colourists were a group of painters from Scotland whose work was not very highly regarded when it was first exhibited in the 1920s and 1930s, but which in the late 20th Century came to have a formative influence on contemporary Scottish art....

": F. C. B. Cadell, J. D. Fergusson, Leslie Hunter, and Samuel Peploe

Samuel Peploe

Samuel John Peploe was a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, noted for his still life works and for being one of the group of four painters that became known as the Scottish Colourists...

. The gallery also represents a number of contemporary artists, including Jack Vettriano

Jack Vettriano

Jack Vettriano OBE born Jack Hoggan , is a Scottish painter.- Early life :Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He left school at 16 and later became an apprentice mining engineer. Vettriano did not take up painting as a hobby until the 1970s, when a girlfriend...

, who exhibit regularly at the gallery.

External links

• The Portland Gallery's official site