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Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (250 words) |
 | Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is an art gallery funded by Dublin City Council and located in Charlemont House in Dublin city in Ireland. |
| The gallery was founded by Hugh Lane on Harcourt Street in 1908, and is the first known public gallery of modern art in the world. |
| Francis Bacon's studio was reconstructed in the gallery in 2001. |
| John Singer Sargent's Sir Hugh Lane (312 words) |
| Hugh Lane (1875-1915) is best-known for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in 1908 (the first known public gallery of modern art in the world) and for his remarkable contribution to the visual arts in Ireland. |
| Born in County Cork on 9 November 1875, Lane was brought up in Cornwall in England. |
| However, Lane did not live to see his Gallery permanently located as he died tragically in 1915 on board the Lusitania, off the west coast of Cork, the county of his birth. |
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