The National Gallery of Ireland houses the
IrishIreland is a country in north-western Europe. The modern sovereign state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned on 3 May 1921. It is a parliamentary democracy and a republic...
national collection of
IrishThe early history of Irish visual art is generally considered to begin with early carvings found at sites such as Newgrange and is traced through Bronze Age artifacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period...
and European art. It is located in the centre of
DublinDublin is the largest city and capital of Ireland. It is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath or Áth Cliath ; the English name comes from the Irish Dubh Linn meaning "black pool". It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the...
with one entrance on
Merrion SquareMerrion Square is situated on the south side of Dublin city centre and is considered one of the city's finest Georgian squares. The square was laid out after 1762 and was largely complete by the beginning of the 19th century....
, beside
Leinster HouseLeinster House is the name of the building housing the national parliament of the Republic of Ireland .The term Leinster House can refer to* The former ducal palace that was the home of the Duke of Leinster, or...
, and another on Clare Street. It was founded in 1854 and opened its doors ten years later. The Gallery has an extensive, representative collection of Irish painting and is also notable for its Italian Baroque and
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painting.
The National Gallery of Ireland houses the
IrishIreland is a country in north-western Europe. The modern sovereign state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned on 3 May 1921. It is a parliamentary democracy and a republic...
national collection of
IrishThe early history of Irish visual art is generally considered to begin with early carvings found at sites such as Newgrange and is traced through Bronze Age artifacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period...
and European art. It is located in the centre of
DublinDublin is the largest city and capital of Ireland. It is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath or Áth Cliath ; the English name comes from the Irish Dubh Linn meaning "black pool". It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the...
with one entrance on
Merrion SquareMerrion Square is situated on the south side of Dublin city centre and is considered one of the city's finest Georgian squares. The square was laid out after 1762 and was largely complete by the beginning of the 19th century....
, beside
Leinster HouseLeinster House is the name of the building housing the national parliament of the Republic of Ireland .The term Leinster House can refer to* The former ducal palace that was the home of the Duke of Leinster, or...
, and another on Clare Street. It was founded in 1854 and opened its doors ten years later. The Gallery has an extensive, representative collection of Irish painting and is also notable for its Italian Baroque and
Dutch masters"Dutch Masters" redirects here; for the cigar, see Dutch Masters .Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history generally spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years War for Dutch independence...
painting. The current director of the gallery is Raymond Keaveney. Entry to the gallery is free.
History
In 1853 an exhibition, the
Great Industrial ExhibitionThe Great Industrial Exhibition in 1853 was held in Dublin, Ireland. In its day, it was the largest international event to be held in Ireland. The Irish Industrial Exhibition Building housed the entire fair...
, was held on the lawns of Leinster House in Dublin. Among the most popular exhibits was a substantial display of works of art organized and underwritten by the railway magnate
William DarganWilliam Dargan , an engineer, often seen as the father of Irish railways, came from County Laois, Ireland. Born in 1799, he constructed Ireland's first railway from Dublin to Dún Laoghaire in 1833. He constructed over of railway to important urban centres of Ireland...
. The enthusiasm of the visiting crowds demonstrated a public for art and it was decided to establish a permanent public art collection as a lasting mon History building of the
National Museum of IrelandThe National Museum of Ireland is the national museum in Ireland. It has three branches in Dublin and one in County Mayo, with a strong emphasis on Irish art, culture and natural history. The Director of the National Museum is Dr...
which was already planned for the facing flank of Leinster House. The building itself was designed by
Francis FowkeFrancis Fowke was a British engineer and architect, and a Captain in the Royal Engineers. Most of his architectural work was executed in the Renaissance style, although he made use of relatively new technologies to create iron framed buildings, with large open galleries and spaces.Fowke was born...
, based on early plans by Charles Lanyon and was completed in 1864.
The Gallery was unlucky not to have been founded around an existing collection, but through diligent and skilful purchase, by the time it opened it had 125 paintings, in 1866 an annual purchase grant was established and by 1891 space was already limited. In 1897 the Dowager Countess of Milltown indicated her intention of donating the contents of
Russborough HouseRussborough House is a stately house situated near the Blessington Lakes in County Wicklow, Ireland, between the towns of Blessington and Ballymore Eustace and is reputed to be the longest house in Ireland, with a frontage measuring 210 m/700 ft...
to the Gallery. This gift included about 200 hundred paintings and prompted construction from 1899 to 1903 of what is now called the Milltown Wing, designed by
Thomas Newenham DeaneSir Thomas Newenham Deane was an Irish architect, the son of Sir Thomas Deane, and father of Sir Thomas Manly Deane, who were also architects....
.
At around this time Henry Vaughan left 31 watercolours by J.M.W. Turner with the requirement that they could only be exhibited in January, this to protect them from the ill-effects of sunlight. Though modern lighting technology has made this stipulation unnecessary, the Gallery continues to restrict viewing of the Vaughan bequest to January and the exhibition is treated as something of an occasion.
Another substantial bequest came with the untimely death in the sinking of the of
Hugh LaneSir Hugh Percy Lane is best known for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and for his remarkable contribution to the visual arts in Ireland...
(1875–1915), since 1914 director of the Gallery; not only did he leave a large collection of pictures, he also left part of his residual estate and the Lane Fund has continued to contribute to the purchase of art works to this day. In addition to his involvement in the Gallery, Hugh Lane has also hoped to found a gallery of modern art, something only realised after his death in the
Hugh Lane Municipal GalleryDublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is an art gallery funded by Dublin City Council and located in Charlemont House in Dublin, Ireland. Charlemont House was originally the town house of James Caulfeild, the 1st Earl of Charlemont and was designed by Sir William Chambers.Previously called the...
.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays...
also made a substantial bequest, he left the Gallery a third of royalties of his estate in gratitude for the time he spent there as a youth.
The Gallery was again extended in 1962 with a new wing designed by Frank DuBerry of the Office of Public Works. This opened in 1968 and is now named the Beit Wing. In 1978 the Gallery received from the government the paintings given to the nation by
Chester BeattyThe Chester Beatty Library was established in Dublin, Ireland in 1950, to house the collections of mining magnate, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. The present library, on the grounds of Dublin Castle, opened on February 7, 2000, the 125th anniversary of Sir Alfred's birth and was named European Museum...
and in 1987 the Sweeney bequest brought 14 works of art including paintings by Picasso and Jack B. Yeats. The same year the Gallery was once again given some of the contents of
Russborough HouseRussborough House is a stately house situated near the Blessington Lakes in County Wicklow, Ireland, between the towns of Blessington and Ballymore Eustace and is reputed to be the longest house in Ireland, with a frontage measuring 210 m/700 ft...
when Alfred Beit donated 17 masterpieces, including paintings by Velázquez, Murillo, Steen, Vermeer and Raeburn.
In the 1990s a lost
CaravaggioMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610...
,
The Taking of ChristThe Taking of Christ is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio . It is housed in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.-Description:...
, known through replicas, was discovered hanging in a Jesuit house of studies in Leeson Street in Dublin by Sergio Benedetti, senior conservator of the gallery. The Jesuits have generously allowed this painting to be exhibited in the Gallery and the discovery was the cause of national excitement. In 1997
Anne YeatsAnne Butler Yeats was an Irish painter and stage designer. She was a daughter of the poet William Butler Yeats and a niece of the painter Jack B. Yeats and botanic artist Elizabeth Yeats...
donated sketchbooks by her uncle Jack Yeats and the Gallery now includes a Yeats Museum. Denis Mahon, a well known art critic, promised the Gallery part of his rich collection and eight painting from his promised bequest are on permanent display, including the
Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph by Guercino.
The Directors of the Gallery have been: George Mulvany, 1862-9; Henry Doyle, 1869-92; Walter Armstrong, 1892-1914;
Hugh LaneSir Hugh Percy Lane is best known for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and for his remarkable contribution to the visual arts in Ireland...
, 1914-15; Robert Langton Douglas, 1916-23; Lucius O'Callaghan, 1923-7;
Thomas BodkinProfessor Thomas Patrick Bodkin was an Irish lawyer, art historian, art collector and curator.Bodkin was Director of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin from 1927 to 1935 and founding Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham from 1935 until 1952, where he acquired the...
, 1927-35; George Furlong, 1935-50; Thomas McGreevy, 1950-63; James White, 1964-80; Homan Potterton, 1980-88.
Millennium Wing
A new wing, the Millennium Wing, was opened in 2002. Unlike the previous two extensions, this new wing has street frontage and the English architects
Benson & ForsythBenson & Forsyth is a British architectural partnership, whose principal architects are Gordon Benson and Alan Forysth. Their offices are in Islington, London, although they formerly also had a small office in Edinburgh. They were nominated for the Stirling Prize in 1999 and 2002 for the Museum...
gave it an imposing Bowers Whitbed, Portland Stone façade and grand atrium. The design originally involved demolishing an adjoining Georgian terrace house and its ballroom mews; however, the Irish planning appeals authority,
An Bord PleanálaAn Bord Pleanála is an independent statutory administrative tribunal that decides on appeals from planning decisions made by local authorities in the Republic of Ireland. As of 2007 The Planning Board directly decides major strategic infrastructural projects under the provisions of the Planning...
, required that they be retained. The Millennium Wing is not without its critics: it is unforgiving of poor maintenance and the compromise in the design as required by An Bord Pleanala resulted in a final design diluted from the original competition winning building concept. The circulation space also lacks clarity, but it is generally considered that these flaws are trivial details set against the drama of the building.
Highlights of the collection
The collection includes 14,000 artworks, including 2,500 oil paintings, 5,000 drawings, 5,000 prints and some sculpture, furniture and other works of art.
Spanish
- Luis de Morales
Luis de Morales was a Spanish painter born in Badajoz, Extremadura. Most of his work was of religious subjects, including many representations of the Madonna and Child and the Passion....
(c.1592–86) St Jerome in the Wilderness 1570s
- Jusepe de Ribera (1591?–1652) St Onuphrius late 1620s
- Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist...
(1599–1660) Kitchen Maid with the Supper of EmmausLa mulata or Kitchen Maid with the Supper of Emmaus is one of the first known works by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, possibly begun at the end of 1617 or the start of 1618 and completed around 1623 in Seville. It shows a mulatto kitchen maid, with the supper at Emmaus in the left background....
c.1617–18
- Francisco Zurbarán
Francisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes...
(1598–1664) The Immaculate Conception early 1660s
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo , was a Spanish painter, one of the most important figures in Baroque painting in Spain. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children...
(1617–82) The Return of the Prodigal Son c.1660
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) Dona Antonia Zarate c.1805–06
- Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881–1973) Still-Life with Mandolin 1924
- Juan Gris
José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life...
(1887–1927) Pierrot 1921
French
- Jacques Yverni (flourished 1410–38) The Annunciation c.1435
- Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color...
(1594–1665)
- Acis and Galatea 1627–28
- The Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1657–60
- Jean Lamaire (1598–1659) Architecture Landscape with Classical Figures 1627–30
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life.-Life:Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city...
(1699–1779) Still Life: Two Rabbits, a Grey Partridge, Game Bag and Powder Flask 1731
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings , of which only five...
(1732–1806) Venus and Cupid (Day) c.1755
- Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...
(1798–1863) Demosthenes on the Seashore 1859
- Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...
(1819–77) Portrait of Adolphe Marlet 1851
- Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley was an English Impressionist landscape painter who was born, and spent most of his life, in France. Sisley is generally recognized as the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air...
(1819–99) The Banks of the Canal du Loing at Saint-Mammes 1888
- Claude Monet
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(1840–1926) Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat 1874
- Paul Signac
Paul Signac was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style.-Biography:...
(1863–1935) Lady on the Terrace 1898
- Kees van Dongen
Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen , usually known as Kees van Dongen or just Van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits....
(1877–1968) Stella in a Flowered Hat c.1907
- Chaim Soutine
Chaïm Soutine was a Jewish, expressionist painter from Belarus. He has been interpreted as both a forerunner of Abstract Expressionism and as a proponent of painting in the European tradition exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin, and Courbet.-Biography:Soutine was born in Smilavichy near...
(1893–1943) Landscape with the Flight of Stairs c.1922
Italian
- Master of Verucchio (14th century) The Crucifixion, Noli me tangere c.1330–40
- Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico , born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent"....
(1417–55) Sts Cosmas and Damian and their Brothers surviving the Stake c.1440–42
- Zarobi Strozzi (attribute to) (1412–68) Assumption of the Virgin with Sts Jerome and Francis 1460s
- Filippino Lippi
Filippino Lippi was a well-known painter working during the High Renaissance in Florence, Italy.-Biography:...
(1457–1504) Portrait of a Musician late 1480s
- Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, born 1473/1490 , died 27 August 1576, better known as Titian , was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno , in the Republic of Venice...
(c.1485/90–1576) Ecce Homo c.1558/60
- Giovan Battista Moroni (before 1524–1578) Portrait of a Gentleman and his two Children c.1570
- Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610...
(1571–1610) The Taking of ChristThe Taking of Christ is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio . It is housed in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.-Description:...
1602
- Guido Reni
Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that...
(1575–1624) The Suicide of Cleopatra c.1639–40
- Domenichino (1581–1641) Saint Mary Magdalene c.1625
- Guercino (1591–1666) Jacob blessing the Sons of Jacob c.1620
- Sassoferrato
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato was an Italian Baroque painter. He is often referred to only by the town of his birthplace , as was customary in his time, and for example seen with da Vinci and Caravaggio.-Biography:The details of Giovanni Battista Salvi's biography are very sparse...
(1609–85) Virgin and Child 1630s
- Luca Giordano
Luca Giordano was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching.-Early life and training:...
(1634–1705) Venus, Mars and the Forge of Vulcan 1660s
- Carlo Maratta
Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter of the High Baroque period, active mostly in Rome.-Biography:...
(1625–1713) The Rape of Europa c.1680–5
- Francesco Solimena
Francesco Solimena was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen.-Biography:Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino, near Avellino....
(1657–1747) Allegory of Winter c.1690
- Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian painter famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.- Early career :...
(1697–1768) St. Mark's Square c.1756
Ugolino di Nerio"Prophet Isaiah",Jacopo Palma(Elder)"Resurrection",Giovanni Lanfranco"Last Supper"
German and Dutch
- Salzburg School Christ on the Cross with the Virgin Mary and John c.1430
- Master of the Youth of St Romold (active c.1490) St Romold taking leave of his Parents c.1490
- Marinus van Reymerswaele
Marinus Claeszoon van Reymerswaele was a Dutch painter. He worked in Zeeland from 1533-1545. Hence he is also named Marinus de Seeu . He studied at the University of Leuven and was trained as a painter in Antwerp .His name is known from a small number of signed panels...
(attributed) (c.1490/95–c.1567) The Calling of Matthew c.1530–40
- Georg Pencz
Georg Pencz was a German engraver, painter and printmaker.Pencz travelled to Nuremberg in 1523 and joined Albrecht Dürer’s atelier. Like Dürer, he visited Italy and was profoundly influenced by Venetian art and it is believed he worked with Marcantonio Raimondi...
(active 1500–50) Portrait of a Gentleman 1549
- Angelica Kauffmann
Maria Anna Angelika/Angelica Katharina Kauffmann was a Swiss-Austrian neo classical painter.- Early years :...
(1741–1807) The Ely Family 1771
- Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century. He is known for his vigorous brushwork and expressive choice of colors...
(1867–1956) Two Women in a Garden 1915
Flemish
- Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Pieter Brueghel the Younger was a Flemish painter, known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Brueghel the Elder's paintings and nicknamed "Hell Brueghel" for his fantastic treatments of fire and grotesque imagery.-Life:Pieter Brueghel the Younger was the oldest son of the famous...
(1564–c.1637) Peasant Wedding 1620
- Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality...
(1577–1640) St Peter finding the Tribute Money 1617–18
- Jacob Jordaens
Jacob Jordaens , was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their...
(1593–1678)
- The Veneration of the Eucharist c.1630
- The Supper at Emmaus c.1645–65
- Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of King Charles I of England and Scotland and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English...
(1599–1641) A Boy standing on a Terrace c.1623–24
Dutch
- Gerrit van Honthorst (1590–1656) A Musical Party c.1616–18
- Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history...
(and studio) (1606–69) La Main Chaude c.1628
- Willem Cornelisz Duyster
Willem Cornelisz Duyster was a Dutch painter from Amsterdam.-Painting career:Duyster's paintings generally depicted genre scenes and portraits, quite often of soldiers. He exhibited a strong ability to paint textiles, accurately characterize his subjects, and to depict relationships between his...
(1599–1635) Interior with Soldiers 1632
- Aelbert Cuyp
Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz...
(1620–91) Milking Cows 1640s?
- Matthias Stomer (1600–after 1650) The Arrest of Christ c.1641
- Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history...
(1606–69) Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt 1647
- Willem Drost
Willem Drost was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker of history paintings and portraits. He is a mysterious figure, closely associated with Rembrandt, with very few paintings clearly attributrable to him.He was presumably born in what was then known as the United Provinces of the Netherlands,...
(1652–80) Bust of a Man Wearing a Large-brimmed Hat c.1654
- Anthonie de Lorme (1610–73) Interior of St Laurenskerk, Rotterdam c.1660–65
- Gabriel Metsu
Gabriel Metsu was a Dutch painter of history paintings, genre works and portraits.- Life :...
(1629–67)
- Man Writing a Letter c.1663
- Woman Reading a Letter c.1663
- Jan Steen
Jan Havickszoon Steen was a Dutch genre painter of the 17th century . Psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour are marks of his trade.-Life:...
(1625/26–79)
- The Village School c.1665
- The Marriage Feast at Cana 1665–70
- Johannes Vermeer
Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime...
(1632–75) Lady Writing a Letter with her MaidLady Writing a Letter with her Maid is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed between 1670–1671 and held in the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, Ireland. The work shows a middle-class woman attended by a maid who is presumably acting as messenger and go-between for the...
c.1670
- Cornelis Troost
Cornelis Troost was a Dutch painter from Amsterdam.-Painting career:Troost was trained as an actor but gave up his career in 1723. He had his initial success with the painting of a lively group portrait depicting the Amsterdam Inspectors of the Collegium Medicum...
(1696–1750) Jeronimus Tonneman and his son Jeronimus 1736
Nicolas de Gyslaer"Interior with Figures";Emanuel de Witte"Church Interior";Frans Hals"Fisherboy"
British and American
- William Hogarth
William Hogarth was a major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from excellent realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral...
(1697–1764)
- The Western Family c.1738
- The Mackinen Children c.1747
- Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain.-Suffolk:...
1727–88
- A view in Suffolk c.1746
- Mrs Christopher Horton (1743–1808) later Duchess of Cumberland 1766
- The Cottage Girl 1785
- Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA was an important and influential 18th century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy...
(1723–92)
- Parody of Raphael's 'School of Athens' 1751
- The Temple Family 1780–82
- Omai 1776 (On loan from a private collection)
- Charles Coote, The First Earl Of Bellamont 1776
- Henry Raeburn
Sir Henry Raeburn was a Scottish portrait painter.-Biography:He was born the son of a manufacturer in Stockbridge, a former village now within the city of Edinburgh. Orphaned, he was supported by his older brother and placed in Heriot's Hospital, where he received an education...
(1756–1823) Sir John and Lady Clerk of Penicuik 1791
- George Romney
George Romney was a noted English portrait painter.-Early life and education:George Romney was born in Beckside in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire George Romney (26 December 1734 – 15 November 1802) was a noted English portrait painter.-Early life and education:George Romney was born in Beckside in...
(1734–1802) Titania, Puck and the Changeling, from Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' 1793
- John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent was an American painter, and a leading portrait painter of his era. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings...
(1856–1925) The Bead Stringers of Venice 1880–82
- Stanley Royle
Stanley Royle was a post-impressionist British landscape painter, who lived for most of his life in and around Sheffield and Canada...
(1888–1961) The Goose Girl c.1921
- Francis Wheatley
Francis Wheatley , was an English portrait and landscape painter, was born at Wild Court, Covent Garden, London. He studied at William Shipley's drawing school and the Royal Academy, and won several prizes from the Society of Arts...
(1747–1801) The Dublin Volunteers on College Green, 4 November 1779 1779–80
IrishThe early history of Irish visual art is generally considered to begin with early carvings found at sites such as Newgrange and is traced through Bronze Age artifacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period...
- James Barry
James Barry , Irish painter, best remembered for his six part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts...
(1741–1806)
- The Temptation of Adam 1767–70
- Self-portrait as Timanths c.1780–1803
- The Death of Adonis
- Augustus Nicholas Burke
Augustus Joseph Nicholas Burke was an artist and a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy .-Biography:Burke was born into the Galway Burkes of Glinsk. He was the sixth son of William Burke of Knocknagur, Tuam, Co...
(1838–1891) Connemara GirlConnemara Girl is an 1868 painting by the Irish artist Augustus Nicholas Burke . One of the most identifiable paintings in Ireland, it depicts a young, barefoot goat-herder girl carrying a bundle near the shore. It is one of many paintings Burke created of daily life around his native Connemara...
(1865).
- Nathaniel Hone the Elder (1718–84) The Conjurer, 1775
- Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740–1808) Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and Fourth Earl of Bristol (1730–1803), with his Granddaughter Lady Caroline Crichton (1779–1856), in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome c.1790
- Francis Danby
Francis Danby was an Irish painter of the Romantic era.Born in the south of Ireland, he was one of a set of twins; his father, James Danby, farmed a small property he owned near Wexford, but his death, in 1807, caused the family to move to Dublin, while Francis was still a schoolboy...
(1793–1861) The Opening of the Sixth Seal, 1828
- Daniel Maclise
Daniel Maclise , Irish painter, was the son of a Highland soldier and was born in Cork City, working for most of his life in London.-Early life:...
(1806–1870) The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife, 1854
- Sarah Purser
Sarah Purser was an Irish artist. She was born in Kingstown in County Dublin, and raised in Dungarvan, County Waterford. She was educated in Switzerland and afterwards studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and in Paris at the Académie Julian. She worked mostly as a portraitist...
(1848–1943) Le Petit Dejeuner 1881
- Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor was an Irish painter.Born in Castleplunket, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, O’Conor studied at Ampleforth College, then at Dublin and Antwerp before moving to Paris where he was deeply influenced by the Impressionists.O'Conor attended the Metropolitan School and Royal Hibernian Academy...
(1860–1940) Le Jeune Bretonne c.1895
- Walter Osborne
Walter Frederick Osborne was an Irish impressionist. Most of his paintings featured women, children, and the elderly as well as rural scenes. He remains one of the most respected Irish painters.-Career:...
(1859–1903) In a Dublin Park, Light and Shade c.1895
- John Lavery
Sir John Lavery was an Irish painter best known for his portraits.Belfast-born John Lavery attended the Haldane Academy in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1870s and the Académie Julian in Paris in the early 1880s. He returned to Glasgow and was associated with the "Glasgow School"...
(1856–1941) The Artist's Studio: Lady Hazel Lavery with her Daughter Alice and Step-Daughter Eileen 1909–13
- Paul Henry
Paul Henry was a Northern Irish artist who painted the west of Ireland landscape with a spare post-impressionist style....
(1876–1958) Launching the Currach 1910–11
- William John Leech
William John Leech was an Irish painter.-Biography:Leech was born in Dublin and studied there at the Metropolitan School. He later transferred to the Royal Hibernian Academy and studied under Walter Osborne...
(1881–1968) Convent Garden, Brittany c.1912
- Sean Keating
Seán Keating was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the insurrectionary period and of the early industrialization of Ireland...
(1889–1977) An Allegory c.1922
- Mainie Jellett
Mary Harriet Jellett, known as Mainie Jellett was an Irish painter whose Decoration was among the first abstract painting shown in Ireland when it was exhibited at the Society of Dublin Painters Group Show in 1923.Mainie Jellett studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and under Walter...
(1897–1944) Decoration 1923
- Gerard Dillon (1916–1971) The Little Green Fields c.1945
- Louis le Brocquy
Louis le Brocquy is an Irish painter born in Dublin. Louis le Brocquy's work has received much international attention and many accolades in a career that spans seventy years of creative practice...
(1916) A Family 1951
William Orpen"Holy Well"
The Yeats Collection
- Jack B. Yeats (1871–1957)
- The Liffey Swim 1923
- A Morning in a City 1937
- Grief 1951
- John Butler Yeats
John Butler Yeats was an Irish artist and the father of [William Butler Yeats, Lily Yeats, Lollie Yeats and Jack B. Yeats...
(1839–1922) John O'Leary 1904
Drawings and Watercolours
- James Malton
James Malton was an Irish engraver and watercolourist, who once taught geometry and perspective and worked as a draughtsman in the office of the celebrated Irish architect James Gandon...
(1760–1803) The Custom House
- Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) Fishing Boats on Folkestone Beach
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 and was later to be the main inspiration for second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement...
(1828–82) Jane Burden as Queen Guinevere 1858
- Frederick William Burton
Sir Frederick William Burton was an Irish painter born in Corofin, Co Clare.Educated in Dublin, he was elected an associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy at the age of twenty-one and an academician two years later. In 1842 he began to exhibit at the Royal Academy...
(1816–1900) Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on Turret Stairs, 1864 1864
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) Nocturne in Grey and Gold — Piccadilly, 1881–83
- Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
[p] , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas , was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist...
(1834–1917) Two Ballet Dancers in a Dressing Room
- Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881–1973) Two Dancers 1925
See also
- Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museum can be public or private but what distinguishes a Museum is the ownership of a collection. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculpture, photographs, illustrations,...
- Irish art
The early history of Irish visual art is generally considered to begin with early carvings found at sites such as Newgrange and is traced through Bronze Age artifacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period...
- List of Irish artists
- The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery
- The Irish Museum of Modern Art
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