PAINTINGS on display in Glasgow will feature in a major display of work by the Glasgow Boys in the Netherlands.

The Drents Museum in Assen will stage an exhibition featuring 80 paintings and 40 works on paper.

Glasgow Museums is lending 12 works and the Hunterian 24 with 21 coming from the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.

It will be the first retrospective exclusively dedicated to works by the Glasgow Boys held outside of Britain since 1900.

The exhibition will feature Scottish landscapes, portraits and decorative paints by James Guthrie, Edward Walton, Joseph Crawhall, James Paterson, John Lavery, William York MacGregor, George Henry, Edward Hornel, Arthur Melville and William Kennedy.

Annabelle Birnie, director of the Drents Museum, said: "The exhibition will enhance and enrich the museum's focus on its own collection of art around 1900 in which comparable works are represented.

"We are excited and privileged to show the Glasgow Boys as a full exhibition outside Scotland for the first time in a century."

The exhibition will be accompanied by a book which explores for the first time how the presence of the Hague School in Scotland influenced the Glasgow Boys.

The group was made up of around 20 diverse painters who were friends and often painted together.

They rebelled against the establishment and from the mid 1880s were very successful with their innovative work.

The exhibition will open in Assen on Tuesday September 22 and will run until Sunday February 7 next year.