The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh was designed by Robert Rowand Anderson. John Ritchie Findlay, owner of The Scotsman, funded it. The text says it was built from 1885 to 1890. The infobox gives 1889 as established, and the text says the gallery opened that year, but it also says the portrait gallery was established in 1882, so the dates conflict.
The article calls the style Gothic Revival, with Spanish Gothic, Arts and Crafts and 13th-century Gothic influences. It uses red sandstone from Corsehill Quarry near Annan. The building covers 61,000 square feet (5,672 square meters) and has four octagonal corner towers.
The gallery closed in April 2009 for refurbishment and reopened as Portrait on December 1, 2011. The 17.6 million pound project added 60 percent more gallery space. It holds the national portrait collections and the Scottish National Photography Collection. The article gives no hours.
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