Scottish art as a Christmas gift: what to give, and to whom

A print of a painting is an easy gift to get right if you pick the picture for the person. Here is how we would match them, with the full lists in Christmas Gifts and Gifts Under £50.

For someone who loves the Highlands

Landseer's Monarch of the Glen is the obvious stag, and we tell its story in a longer piece. For a quieter picture, Joseph Farquharson's Evening, Finzean puts sheep in Aberdeenshire snow, which suits December.

For someone who keeps flowers in the house

S. J. Peploe painted roses and still lifes again and again, and Roses and Pink Roses in a Chinese Vase are the Scottish Colourist picture most people recognise. They sit well in a kitchen or a hall.

For someone who has been to Iona

Peploe was taken to Iona by F. C. B. Cadell in 1920 and went back nearly every summer for the rest of his life. Peploe's Iona is the print for a person who has stood on that beach.

For someone who reads

Nasmyth's small unfinished portrait of Robert Burns is the face on a thousand shortbread tins, and it is a better picture than that suggests. Joseph Noel Paton's Quarrel of Oberon and Titania is crowded with fairies; Lewis Carroll put the number at 165, and it is worth counting for yourself.

The practical part

Unframed prints start at £32, and every size and frame colour is on the product page. Framed prints come in black, wood or white. Each print is made to order and shipped free worldwide, so allow time before you need it; the shipping page has the details.