Lindsay Errington

Lindsay Margaret Errington is a Scottish art historian and former keeper for over 20 years at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, where she worked to establish a representative collection of Scottish art.

Early life Lindsay Errington was born in Edinburgh and trained as a painter at the Camberwell School of Art in London but did not follow that as a career. She studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art and later completed a PhD there on the subject of "Social and religious themes in English Art" (1973). It was published in book form by Garland in 1984 in their Outstanding theses from the Courtauld Institute of Art series.

Career Errington taught at the Newcastle College of Art but did not find the work to her liking, preferring to be in Scotland, and was appointed to a curatorial post at the National Gallery of Scotland in 1972, only the second woman to hold such a post. She was asked to look after the Scottish paintings, which her male colleagues did not think an honour, but which she was delighted to do. when she was the first Slade professor to lecture on Scottish art.

Selected publications The Artist and the Kirk. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1979. Sir William Quiller Orchardson, 1832-1910. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1980. Social and religious themes in English Art 1840-1860. Garland, New York, 1984. (Outstanding theses from the Courtauld Institute of Art series) Alexander Carse. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1987. (Scottish Masters No. 2) David Wilkie, 1785-1841. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1988. (Scottish Masters No. 10) William McTaggart 1835-1910. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1989. Scotland's pictures: The national collection of Scottish art. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1990. Robert Herdman, 1829-1888. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1998. (Scottish Masters No. 5) Private Views: Eight poems on paintings in the Scottish National Gallery. XX Press, Edinburgh, 2017.