'Ireland's Painters'

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday October 14, 2002 15:00 by pat c

To celebrate the launch of the book, Ireland's Painters, by Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin (sic) (Yale University Press), the National Gallery of Ireland will present a selection of Irish paintings by well-known and lesser known artists, drawn mainly from private collections (listed below).

To celebrate the launch of the book, Ireland's Painters, by Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin (sic) (Yale University Press), the National Gallery of Ireland will present a selection of Irish paintings by well-known and lesser known
artists, drawn mainly from private collections (listed below).

"Ireland's Painters"
(16 October 2002- 16 February 2003)
Admission Free.
Exhibition open during Gallery hours
National Gallery of Ireland
Merrion Square West
Dublin 2
Telephone +353 (0)1 661 5133
www.nationalgallery.ie

List of Works (all private collection unless indicated*):

Annonymous, 'Maire Rua O'Brien', c.1640

Garret MORPHY, 'Viscountess Netterville', c.1690s

William GANDY, 'Richard Parsons, 1st Earl of Rosse', c.1700

*Robert HUNTER, 'Samuel (Premium) Madden,' 1754. Trinity College Dublin

John LEWIS, 'Cimon and Iphigenia', 1758

Thomas ROBERTS, 'A Frost Piece', 1769

Jonathan FISHER, 'View of the lakes of Killarney', 1795

William WILLES, 'The Mock Funeral' or 'The American Wake', c.1850

William ORPEN, 'Mrs St. George', 1912

Roderic O'CONOR, 'Still-life with flowers', 1926