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<h1>The Royal Scottish Academy Collection
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The Royal Scottish Academy started to acquire its collection in 1831 when it decreed
that all members, on reaching the status of Academician, must deposit a Diploma
Work. This should be a piece of work representative of their output in the discipline
of painting, sculpture or architecture. Today the Diploma Collection contains
164 paintings, 27 sculpture and 38 architectural drawings or models by Academicians
past and present.<br>
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Other facets of the RSA's art collections include : recent works by recipients
of RSA scholarships (e.g. John Kinross Scholarship, Alastair Salvesen Trust);
portraits of artists; copies of Old Masters; twentieth century material bought
through specific funds; and mixed collections received through gifts and bequests.
The largest single bequest was that of William Gillies. Received in 1973, the
collection contains over a thousand paintings and drawings by this artist and
many others by his friends and contemporaries.<br>
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