Duncan Macmillan is Emeritus Professor in the History of Scottish Art in the University of Edinburgh where he pioneered the teaching Scottish art as a university subject. As curator of the Talbot Rice Gallery he presented a wide ranging exhibition programme of contemporary art. He is art critic of The Scotsman and a fellow of both the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Royal Scottish Academician. His book, Scottish Art 1460-2000, won the Saltire Prize for Scottish Book of the Year. He has also won several other prizes and holds an honorary degree from the University of Dundee. As well as Scottish Art 1460-2000, numerous articles, exhibition catalogues etc. he has published a number of other books on Scottish art and artists. His most recent, Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art, examines the role of the Scottish Enlightenment in the history of modern art.