The Golfers: A Grand Match Played over St Andrews Links
Charles Lees, 1847
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 16% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe great match at the moment the putt hangs — half of St Andrews leaning in, wagers frozen mid-air. The most famous golf painting ever made, and the proof the gallery is as old as the game: a crowd scene, not a landscape. Nobody is watching the ball but the players; everyone else is watching each other. The match is always bigger than the shot.
- Maker
- Charles Lees
- Date
- 1847
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- National Galleries of Scotland
- Credit
- National Galleries of Scotland
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00010
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | 79 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | 53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 39 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | 31 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 26 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | 15 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 956 x 640 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 28, lights 184 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 3.42
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