National Gallery of Ireland  

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The National Gallery of Ireland houses the Irish national collection of Irish and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin 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.

Highlights

The collection has about 14,000 artworks, including about 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 (1599–1660) Kitchen Maid with the Supper of Emmaus, c.1617–18
• Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) The Immaculate Conception early 1660s
• Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (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 (1887–1927) Pierrot 1921

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 Lemaire (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-Honoré 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
• Chaïm Soutine (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 (1417–55) Sts Cosmas and Damian and their Brothers surviving the Stake c.1440–42
• Zanobi 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 Maratta (1625–1713) The Rape of Europa c. 1680–1685
• Francesco Solimena (1657–1747) Allegory of Winter c.1690
• Canaletto (1697–1768) St. Mark's Square c.1756
• Ugolino di Nerio (early 14th Century) Prophet Isaiah
• Paolo Uccello (1397–1475) Virgin and Child

German and Swiss

• 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
• 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

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

Dutch

• Marinus van Reymerswaele (attributed) (c.1490/95–c.1567) The Calling of Matthew c.1530–40
• 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 Stomer (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) Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid c.1670
• Cornelis Troost (1696–1750) Jeronimus Tonneman and his son Jeronimus 1736
• Nicolaes de Giselaer Interior with Figures
• Emanuel de Witte Church Interior
• Frans Hals Fisher boy with basket

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, 4 November 1779 1779–80
• Andrew Festing (1941–present)

Irish

• Kevin Abosch (photographer) (1969) "Portrait of Brian O'Driscoll" 2011
• James Barry (1741–1806)
  • The Temptation of Adam 1767–70
  • Self-portrait as Timanths c.1780–1803
  • The Death of Adonis
• Augustus Nicholas Burke (1838–1891) Connemara Girl (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 (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 Osborne (1859–1903) Dublin Streets: a Vendor of Books, 1889, 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
• Louis le Brocquy (1916–2012) A Family 1951
• William Orpen (1878–1931) "Portrait of John Count McCormack" 1923

The Yeats Collection

• Jack B. Yeats (1871–1957)
  • Bachelor's Walk, in Memory 1915 (On loan from a private collection)
  • The Liffey Swim 1923
  • A Morning in a City 1937
  • Grief 1952
• John Butler Yeats (1839–1922) John O'Leary 1904

Drawings and watercolours

• James Malton (1760–1803) The Custom House
• Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
  • A Ship against the Mewstone, at the Entrance to Plymouth Sound
  • Fishing Boats on Folkestone Beach
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–82) Jane Burden as Queen Guinevere 1858
• Frederick 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

See also

• Limerick Hell-Fire Club[1] is a painting by James Worsdale