For proof, check out the Scottish National Gallery. That's where Scotland keeps its national collection of art, ranging from the Renaissance to about 1900.
The story goes back more than 200 years. The Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts started to scoop up paintings in 1819, and within 10 years it had enough to open the Royal Institution. But some of the artists weren't happy about the policies there and formed a splinter group eventually called the Royal Scottish Academy. It took a while but in 1912 the RSA moved into the Royal Institution, putting everything under one roof. In 2012, the National Gallery of Scotland had a new name: the Scottish National Gallery. They must have saved money by cutting out the "of."
As you'd expect, the best painters from Scotland are represented here. However, there is also work from such names as Botticelli, Cezanne, van Dyck, Gainsborough, van Gogh, de Goya, El Greco, Monet, Raphael, and Rembrandt. I'm no art expert, but that seems like a pretty good list.
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