The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh is showing a spectacular group of some fifty Flemish, Dutch, early Netherlandish and German drawings and watercolours, spanning from about 1500 to 1700. The display includes works by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger and Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Rembrandt, whose work is pictured, all selected from the Devonshire Collections at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, one of the most significant collections of art and artefacts anywhere in the world. The exhibition is exclusive to the National Galleries of Scotland and will not travel elsewhere.

Also showing, 11th Jan – 9th Feb, is Cauld Blaws the Wind, which brings together work by a range of Royal Scottish Academicians, including Henry Kondracki, Elizabeth Blackadder, Marion Smith and Ade Adesina and Barbara Rae, whose work is pictured below. The premise, or promise, of the show is to bring so warmth and comfort as winter closes in around us – its title a nod to Rabbie Burns’ Up in the Morning Early, Cauld Blaws the Wind. As with all the Academy’s Academicians Gallery displays, all sales made will directly support artists and architects working in Scotland today.