The National Gallery of Ireland houses the Irish national collection of Irish and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin city with one entrance on Merrion Square, beside Leinster House, 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 painting. The current director of the gallery is Raymond Keaveney. Entry to the gallery is free. Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland (and the island of Ireland), located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region. ... Merrion Square is situated on the south side of Dublin city centre and is considered one of the citys finest examples of Georgian squares. ... Leinster House The former palace of the Duke of Leinster. ...

History

In 1853 an exhibition, the Irish Industrial Exhibition, 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 Dargan. 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 monument of gratitude to Dargan. Leinster House The former palace of the Duke of Leinster. ... William Dargan, an engineer, often seen as the father of Irish railways came from County Carlow, Ireland. ...

The facade of the National Gallery mimics the Natural History building of the National Museum of Ireland which was already planned for the facing flank of Leinster House. The building itself was designed by Francis Fowke, based on early plans by Charles Lanyon and was completed in 1864. The National Museum of Ireland (NMI) is the main museum in Ireland. ... Francis Fowke (1823-1865) was a British engineer and architect. ...

The Gallery was unlucky not to have been founded around an existing collection, but through diligent and skillful 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 House 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. This was designed by Thomas Newenham Deane. Irish Palladianism. ...

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. J. M. W. Turner, English landscape painter The fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, painted 1839. ...

Another substantial bequest came with the untimely death in the sinking of the Lusitania of Hugh Lane (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 Gallery. George Bernard Shaw 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. Roman province of Lusitania, 120 AD Lusitania, an ancient Roman province approximately including current Portugal (except for the area between the rivers Douro and Minho) and part of modern day western Spain (specifically the present autonomous community Extremadura), named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people. ... Sir Hugh Lane by Antonio Mancini - Oil on canvas (1913) Sir Hugh Percy Lane ( November 9, 1875-May 7, 1915 ) Born in County Cork on 9 November 1875, he is best known for for establishing Dublins Municipal Gallery of Modern Art (the first known public gallery of modern art... The Hugh Lane : Dublin City Gallery is an art gallery funded by Dublin City Council and located in Charlemont House in Dublin city in Ireland. ... G. Bernard Shaw (he hated the George, which was his fathers first name, and never used it, either personally or professionally) (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. ...

The Gallery was again extended in 1962 with a new wing designed by Frank du Barry 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 Beatty 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 house; the Beit donation of 17 masterpieces, including painting by Velázquez, Murillo, Steen, Vemeer and Raeburn. The Chester Beatty Library was established in Dublin, Ireland in 1950, to house the remarkable collections of mining magnate, Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. ...

In the 1990s a lost Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ, known through replicas, was discovered hanging in a Jesuit house of studies in Leeson street in Dublin. 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 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 magnificent Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph by Guercino. He Was Gay. ... The Taking of Christ was painted in 1602 by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573–1610). ... Anne Yeats (Born Dublin 1919, died 2001) was an Irish painter and stage designer. ... Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) was an Irish artist who wrote and illustrated for books and magazines. ... The Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591—1666) known as Guercino, was born at Cento, a village not far from Bologna. ...

A new wing, the Millennium Wing, was opened in 2002. Unlike the previous two extensions, this new wing has street frontage and the architects Benson and Forsyth gave it an imposing facade and grand atrium. The design originally involved demolishing an adjoining Georgian terrace house and its ballroom mews; however, the planning authority, An Bord Pleanála, required that they be retained and in fact they give depth and texture to the design. The Millennium Wing is not without its critics: it is unforgiving of poor maintenance and its circulation space lacks clarity, but it is generally considered that these flaws are trivial details set against the drama of the building. An Bord Pleanála (or The Planning Appeals Board) determines appeals and other cases under the national planning acts in the Republic of Ireland. ...

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 (c.1592-86) St Jerome in the Wilderness 1570s
• Jusepe de Ribera (1591?-1652) St Onuphrius late 1620s
• Diego Velázquez de Silva (1599-1660) Kitchen Maid with the Supper of Emmaus c.1617-18
• Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664) The Immaculate Conception early 1660s
• Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-82) The Return of the Prodigal Son c.1660
• Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) Dona Antonia Zarate c.1805-06
• Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) Still-Life with Mandolin 1924
• Juan Gris (1887-1927) Peirrot 1921

Luis de Morales (1510? - 1586) was a Spanish religious painter born in Badajoz, Estremadura. ... Penitent Saint Peter by Giuseppe Ribera Giuseppe Ribera (January 12, 1591 - 1652) was the name given in Italian to Jusepe (de) Ribera or José (de) Ribera, also called Lo Spagnoletto, or the Little Spaniard, a leading painter of the Neapolitan or partly of the Spanish school, who was born near... Las Meninas, painted in 1656. ... Francisco Zurbarán (1598-1664), was a Spanish painter, born at Fuente de Cantos in Estremadura on the November 7, 1598. ... Murillo Bartolom Est ban Murillo (January 1, 1618 - April 3, 1682) was a Spanish painter from Seville. ... This article is about Francisco Goya, a Spanish painter. ... A young Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art. ... The Sunblind, 1914, Tate Gallery. ...

French

• Jacques Yverni (flourished 1410-38) The Annunciation c.1435
• Nicolas Poussin (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 (1699-1779) Still Life: Two Rabbits, a Grey Partridge, Game Bag and Powder Flask 1731
• Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) Venus and Cupid (Day) c.1755
• Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) Demosthenes on the Seashore 1859
• Gustave Courbet (1819-77) Portrait of Adolphe Marlet 1851
• Alfred Sisley (1819-99) The Banks of the Canal du Loing at Saint-Mammes 1888
• Claude Monet (1840-1926) Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat 1874
• Paul Signac (1863-1935) Lady on the Terrace 1898
• Kees van Dongen (1877-1968) Stella in a Flowered Hat c.1907
• Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) Landscape with the Flight of Stairs c.1922

Les Bergers d’Arcadie. ... Self portrait. ... Jean-Honoré Fragonard (April 5, 1732 – August 22, 1806) was a French painter. ... Eugène Delacroix (portrait by Nadar) Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (April 26, 1798 - August 13, 1863) was an important painter from the French romantic period. ... Gustave Courbet (portrait by Nadar) Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 – December 31, 1877) was a French painter. ... Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garonne. ... Claude Monet. ... Paul Signac (November 11, 1863 - August 15, 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. ... Kees van Dongen (January 26, 1877 – May 28, 1968), was a Dutch painter born in Delfshaven. ... Chaim Soutine (1893 – August 9, 1943) was an expressionist painter. ...

Italian

Caravaggio The Taking of Christ 1602

• Master of Verucchio (14th century) The Crucifixion, Noli me tangere c.1330-40
• Fra Angelino (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 (1457-1504) Portrait of a Musician late 1480s
• Titian (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 (1571-1610) The Taking of Christ 1602
• Guido Reni (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 (1609-85) Virgin and Child 1630s
• Luca Giordano (1634-1705) Venus, Mars and the Forge of Vulcan 1660s
• Carlo Maratti (1625-1713) The Rape of Europa c.1680-5
• Francesco Solimena (1657-1747) Allegory of Winter c.1690
• Canaletto (1697-1768) St. Mark's Square c.1756

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German and Netherlandish

• 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 (attributed) (c.1490/95-c.1567) The Calling of Matthew c.1530-40
• Georg Pencz (active 1500-50) Portrait of a Gentleman 1549
• Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) The Ely Family 1771
• Emil Nolde (1867-1956) Two Women in a Garden 1915

Portrait of a Seated Youth, 1544, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. ... Maria Anna Angelica Kauffmann (October 30, 1741–November 5, 1807) was a Swiss painter. ... Large Sunflowers Emil Nolde (August 7, 1867 - April 15, 1956) was a German painter born as Emil Hansen in the village of Nolde, Germany, near the [present-day] German-Danish border. ...

Flemish

• Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-c.1637) Peasant Wedding 1620
• Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) St Peter finding the Tribute Money 1617-18
• Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678)
  • The Veneration of the Eucharist c.1630
  • The Supper at Emmaus c.1645-65
• Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) A Boy standing on a Terrace c.1623-24

Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564 – 1638) was a Flemish Renaissance painter, son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. ... The Adoration of the Magi, painted 1624. ... Self-Portrait with Parents, Brothers, and Sisters by Jacob Jordaens (c. ... Self Portrait With a Sunflower Sir Anthony (Antoon) van Dyck (*March 22, 1599 - December 9, 1641) was a Flemish painter — mainly of portraits — who became the leading court painter in England. ...

Dutch

Johannes Vermeer Woman writing a Letter, with her Maid c.1670

• Gerrit van Honthorst (1590-1656) A Musical Party c.1616-18
• Rembrandt (and studio) (1606-69) La Main Chaude c.1628
• Willem Cornelisz Duyster (1599-1635) Interior with Soldiers 1632
• Aelbert Cuyp (1620-91) Milking Cows 1640s?
• Matthias Stom (1600-after 1650) The Arrest of Christ c.1641
• Rembrandt (1606-69) Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt 1647
• Willem Drost (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 (1629-67)
  • Man Writing a Letter c.1663
  • Woman Reading a Letter c.1663
• Jan Steen (1625/26-79)
  • The Village School c.1665
  • The Marriage Feast at Cana 1665-70
• Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) Woman writing a Letter, with her Maid c.1670
• Cornelis Troost (1696-1750) Jeronimus Tonneman and his son Jeronimus 1736

Image File history File links DublinVermeer. ... Image File history File links DublinVermeer. ... Gerhard van Honthorst (1590 - 1656), also known as Gherardo della Notte, was a Dutch painter of Utrecht. ... This article is about the Dutch painter. ... The Negro Page Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (Dordrecht October 20, 1620 - Dordrecht November 15, 1691) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century. ... This article is about the Dutch painter. ... Willem Drost (1633 - 1659) was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker. ... Gabriel Metsu (1630 - 1667), Dutch painter, was the son of Jacob Metsu, who lived most of his days at Leiden, where he was three times married. ... Self Portrait as a Lutenist (1660-63) Jan Havickszoon Steen (born 1626 (?) in Leiden, died January 1, 1679 in Leiden) was a Dutch painter of the 17th century (also known as the Dutch Golden Age). ... Milkmaid (1658-1660) This article is about the Dutch painter. ...

British and American

• William Hogarth (1697-1764)
  • The Western Family c.1738
  • The Mackinen Children c.1747
• Thomas Gainsborough 1727-88
  • A view in Suffolk c.1746
  • Mrs Christopher Horton (1743-1808) later Duchess of Cumberland 1766
  • The Cottage Girl 1785
• Joshua Reynolds (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 (1756-1823) Sir John and Lady Clerk of Penicuik 1791
• George Romney (1734-1802) Titania, Puck and the Changeling, from Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' 1793
• John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) The Bead Stringers of Venice 1880-82
• Stanley Royle (1888-1961) The Goose Girl c.1921
• Francis Wheatley (1747-1801) The Dublin Volunteers on College Green, 4th November 1779 1779-80

William Hogarth, self-portrait, 1745 William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26, 1764) was a major English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. ... Self-portrait, painted 1759 Blue boy, painted 1770 This article is about the artist Thomas Gainsborough. ... Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir Joshua Reynolds (July 16, 1723–February 23, 1792) was the most important and influential of eighteenth-century English painters, specialising in portraits and promoting the Grand Style in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. ... Sir Henry Raeburn (March 4, 1756 - July 8, 1823) was a Scottish portrait-painter. ... Portrait of Miss Willoughby, second half of 18th century. ... Self Portrait, oil painting, 1907 John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a painter known for his portraits. ... Francis Wheatley (1747- June 28,1801), was an English portrait and landscape painter, was born at Wild Court, Covent Garden, London. ...

Irish

• James Barry (1741-1806)
  • The Temptation of Adam 1767-70
  • Self-portrait as Timanths c.1780-1803
• 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 (1793-1861) The Opening of the Sixth Seal, 1828
• Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife, 1854
• Sarah Purser (1848-1943) Le Petit Dejeuner 1881
• Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940) Le Jeune Bretonne c.1895
• Walter Fredrick Osborne (1859-1903) In a Dublin Park, Light and Shade c.1895
• John Lavery (1856-1941) The Artist's Studio: Lady Hazel Lavery with her Daughter Alice and Step-Daughter Eileen 1909-13
• Paul Henry (1876-1958) Launching the Currach 1910-11
• William John Leech (1881-1968) Convent Garden, Brittany c.1912
• Sean Keating (1889-1977) An Allegory c.1922
• Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) Decoration 1923
• Gerard Dillon (1916-1971) The Little Green Fields c.1945

James Barry may refer to: James Barry, Irish-English painter James Barry, British surgeon This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Hugh Douglas Hamilton (c. ... Francis Danby (16th November 1793 - 9th February 1861) was a painter born in the south of Ireland. ... Daniel Maclise (1806 - April 25, 1870), Irish painter, was born at Cork, the son of a Highland soldier. ... Sarah Purser (March 22, 1848 - August 7, 1943) was an Irish artist. ... Roderic OConor (1860-1940) Born in Roscommon Ireland, O’Conor studied at Ampleforth College and Dublin and Antwerp before moving to Paris where he was deeply influenced by the Impressionists. ... Mrs Lavery sketching, 1910, National Gallery of Australia. ... People named Paul Henry: Paul-Pierre Henry, 19th century French astronomer Paul Henry (actor) British actor best known for his role in Crossroads. ... Seán Keating (Born John Keating, Limerick 1889, died Dublin 1977) was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the insurrectionary period and of the early industrialization of Ireland. ... Mary Harriet Jellett, known as Mainie Jellett, (born Dublin 1897, died Dublin 1944) was an Irish painter whose Decoration (1923) was among the first abstract painting shown in Ireland when it was exhibited at the Society of Dublin Painters Group Show in 1923. ...

The Yeats Collection

• Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957)
  • The Liffey Swim 1923
  • A Morning in a City 1937
  • Grief 1951
• John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) John O'Leary 1904

Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) was an Irish artist who wrote and illustrated for books and magazines. ... John Butler Yeats (Born Tullylish 16 March 1839, died 3 February 1922) was an Irish artist and the father of William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. ...

Drawings and Watercolours

• James Malton (1760-1803) The Custom House
• Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) Fishing Boats on Folkestone Beach
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) Jane Burden as Queen Guinevere 1858
• Fredrick William Burton (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 (1834-1917) Two Ballet Dancers in a Dressing Room
• Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) Two Dancers 1925

J. M. W. Turner, English landscape painter The fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, painted 1839. ... Dante Gabriel Rossetti (May 12, 1828 - April 10, 1882) was an English poet, painter and translator. ... James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 14, 1834 - July 17, 1903) was an American painter and etcher. ... Edgar Degas Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917) was a French painter and sculptor. ... A young Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art. ...

See also

• The Irish Museum of Modern Art
• The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery
• Irish art
• List of Irish artists
• Art gallery

The Irish Museum of Modern Art, also known as the IMMA, opened in May 1991 and is Irelands leading national institution exhibiting and collecting modern and contemporary art. ... The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery is an art gallery funded by Dublin City Council and located in Charlemont House in Dublin city in Ireland. ... 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 artefacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period. ... This is a list of visual artists born or working mainly in Ireland along with a list of critics, collectors and curators who have had an influence on Irish visual arts. ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ...

External links

• National Gallery of Ireland website
• The Millennium Wing on Irish-architecture.com

References

• Raymond Keaveney (2002), The National Gallery of Ireland: Essential Guide. London: Scala Publishers. ISBN 1857592670
• Homan Potterton (2003), The National Gallery of Ireland in Brian Lalor (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillian. ISBN 0-7171-3000-2