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Fifty Irish painters

National Gallery Of Ireland

National Gallery of Ireland

Walter Osborne

Sheehy, Jeanne

Six years after the National Gallery of Ireland was opened in 1864, the Governors and Guardians, at the suggestion of the then Director of the Gallery, Henry Doyle, decided to form a collection of Irish National Portraits. The impetus for such a collection came from a loan exhibition of national portraits which took place in Dublin in 1872 and the Gallery set about acquiring some of those pictures for the new collection. Since that time the National Gallery of Ireland has assembled a large and representative collection of portraits, which in the words of the first catalogue published in 1875, comprise not only the portraits of eminent Irishmen and Irishwomen, but also of statesmen and others who were politically or socially connected with Ireland, or whose lives serve in any way to illustrate her history, or throw light on her social or literary or artistic records . From this collection Ann Stewart has selected fifty portraits ranging from The Fair Geraldine (d.1589) who is immortalised in the poetry of the Earl of Surrey to a portrait of James Joyce painted in 1934. The people depicted in the portraits include soldiers and statesmen, poets, playwrights and patriots and some who were famous for no reason other than being beautiful. All are illustrated in colour and in the accompanying text the author describes the lives of the sitters and the circumstances of the time in which they lived.Ann Stewart is Librarian at the National Gallery of Ireland.Cover: detail of Portrait of James Joyce by Jacques-Emilc Blanche.

Fifty Irish portraits

Arts & Photography

Stewart, Ann

History & Criticism

Fifty French Paintings on Display at the Gallery, Reproduced in Colour. When the National Gallery of Ireland first opened to the public in January 1864 the collection on view numbered one hundred and thirty-eight paintings. Of these only nine were French and two of them by Poussin and Vernet, were not part of the the Gallery's collection but on loan from the National Gallery, London. Of the remaining seven there was a studio work by Vernet, a painting of Cupid Chastised attributed to Prud'hon (but now known to be by the German eighteenth century painter, Ignaz Stern) and a portrait of the Irish writer and socoalite, Lady Morgan by the nineteenth century painter, Rene Berthon. Four very large French paintings dominated the new galleries on that opening day and these four pictures, all featured in this book, formed the basis of the Gallery's French collection which now numbers about one hundred and fifty paintings.

Fifty French paintings

Honor Quinlan

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