The National Gallery of Ireland founded in 1854 houses an impressive collection of over 15,000 artworks. Spanning the history of western European art from around 1300 to the present day, the collection includes well-known artist from Mantegna and Titian to Monet and Picasso, including various schools and era.

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Collection Highlights

2. Uccello 1435.
Paolo Uccello (1396/7-1475) was
celebrated as the master of perspective
in his time. Still more he used
foreshortening as well.
You can see how he used these techniques in his
painting, ‘The Battle of San Romano’ in the
National Gallery, London.

3. Fra Angelico 1439

4. Two amazing huge paintings of its time.
The Battle of the Pisa 1460s.

5. The Battle of the Pisa 1460s.
The Battle of Pisa (Detail). Late 1460s. Tempera & Gold on panel. Artist unknown.

6. Granacci c1494.
Francesco Granacci (1469/70-1543)
was a Florentine painter of the
generation immediately preceding
Michelangelo. Like Michelangelo,
Granacci was a pupil of Domenico
Ghirlandaio and he also worked with
him as an assistant. He also engaged
by Michelangelo in 1508 to work on
the ceiling of the Sistine chapel. Like
others, he was also dismissed after
one month.

7. Perugino c1495.

8. Mazzolino c1530.

9. Caravaggio 1607.

10. Titian 1607.
Tiziano Vecellio (c1488-1576) was
commonly known as Titian. He
was a talented Venetian painter.
His late works are imbued with a
profound intensity and spiritually,
like this portrait of Jesus. He was
very successful, with nobility
queueing up to have their portraits
painted by him.

11. Fontana 1600.
There were on half a dozen of female painters in the Renaissance. Lavinia Fontana was of them. This was one of her
ambitious works. She painted Vincenzo Conzaga & his wife Eleonora de Medici as Solomon & Queen of Sheba.

12. Orazio Gentileschi 1605
Orazio Gentileschi (1562-1639) was
the father of his famous daughter
Artemisia. Orazio was a follower of
Caravaggio. The painting with its
strong contrast and realism echoed
Caravaggio’s style. The painting
depicted the a moment before David
decapitation of Goliath’s head.

13. Rembrandt 1647.

14. Velazquez c1617.
This an early work by Velazquez. He liked to show different types of utensils, with different lustre.

15. Avercamp c1620.
It was Pieter Bruegel the Elder, who taught Avercamp how to paint winter scene. Today, he
is mostly associated with winter skating scenes,

16. Peter Brueghel the Younger 1620.

17. Lorrain 1660
Claude Lorrain is often regarded as the first painter to raise the statue of landscape painting to a prestigious genre.

18. Ruisdael 1653.

19. Metsu 1664
This painting is by Metsu and
not by Vermeer. It shows the
lady reading by the window
not only for the bright light but
also hiding the letter from the
maid who is lifting a curtain on
a painting.

20. Metsu 1664 (Detail)

21. Vermeer 1664 (Detail)

22. Steen (Detail) c1665.
Jan Steen (1626-79) was a
Dutch Golden Age painter,
known for his psychological
insight, sense of humour and
abundance of colour.
He is a well loved artist, who
relates to us. He painted with a
liberal dose of mockery,
situation we recognize
immediately.
Jan Steen

23. Panini 1731
Giovanni Paolo Penini (c1692-1765/68) was the first painter to specialize in ruins, treating
them as Roman Vedute. This is one of his more well-known painting.

24. Boucher 1752.
This is a sketch of his more well-known painting.

25. Canova 1789.
“Canova was the most talented and innovative
sculptors of the Neo-classical period. His studio
in Rome became a meeting place for
intellectuals, collectors and tourists. In 1789 he
visited by the Irishman John David La Touche,
who commissioned this statue. Canova
idealised the body of the adolescent boy
personifying Cupid or as he was known in
Italian Amorino, achieving an elegant, Classical
simplicity.” Highlights of the Collection.
National Gallery Ireland.

26. Reynolds 1773.
Charles Coote was the MP of County
Cavan and was made a knight of the
Bath, an order that rewarded political
and military service.
Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) is historically,
the most important painter in British
painting. He was also the first president
of the Royal Academy.

27. Reynolds 1775

28. Gainsborough 1785.
A child in ragged clothing has
come from a cottage to take
water from a brook, she holds
a broken earthenware pitcher.
Gainsborough painted almost
20 such fancy picture of rustic
figure often children set in
imaginary landscape.

29. Goya 1805.
Goya painted Dona Antonia Zarate
was a stage personalities. In this
painting he had accentuated her black
hair and black laced gown on a yellow
settee.
Goya painted her again 5 years later.

30. David 1778.
Jacques-Louis David (1770-1837) broke with
the traditional Rococo and became the most
important painter of Neo-Classicism. During
this period he used his paintings as
propaganda of the French Revolution.
Later in life, he imposed a self exile which cut
himself off from the rise of Romanticism.

31. Gerard 1808.
Baron Francois Gerard (1770-1837) was
a student of David. He reputation as a
portrait painter was made in 1795.
During the First Empire he rivalled David
in court favour. It was Gerard who
suggested to David in his huge
Coronation of Napoleon should crown
Josephine instead of himself.

32. Turner 1814

33. Burton 1864
Frederic William Burton
(1816-1900) born in County
Wicklow. He began to exhibit
at the Royal Academy 1842.
In the same year, he also
visited Germany, Bavaria and
other parts of Europe, gaining
profound knowledge of the
works of the Old Masters.
This is one of his best known
paintings.

34. Breton 1854

35. Couture 1865
Thomas Couture (1815-65) was a
historic and portrait painter. His
most famous painting is above. It
is a huge painting. It is displayed
prominently at the Musee d’Orsay
in Paris. He was a pupil of Gros.
He too was always an outstanding
teacher himself.

36. Melssonier 1875

37. Pissarro 187
Pissarro (1830-1903) was often
referred to as the ‘Father of
Impressionism’. Between 1872 and
1973 he painted a number of still lifes
at his home in Pontolse. This is one
of these paintings. The reflection of
the vase on the polished table top
demonstrates Pissarro’s interest in
the effect of light on varied surfaces.
Monet and Renoir also painted
chrysanthemums as it was associated
with the new founded interests in
Japanese art.

38. Monet 1874

39. Ocbourne 1880
“Aston Quay has long been
for generations a favourable
location for street hawkers.
In Osborne’s picture a
mother with baby appears
to have dispatched an older
child to charm gentlemen
perusing books at the stall
into buying daffodils. The
little flower girl’s bare feet
are explicit reference to the
hardships endured by
Dublin’s poor.” Museum
guide.

40. Degas 1880

41. Van Gogh 1888
Van Gogh (1853-1890) lived in
Paris between 1885 and 1888. It
was in Paris that he explored a
radical different style.
Van Gogh painted this in 1886, Paris.

42. O’Coner c1895
“O’Coner (1860-1940) Painted several
studies of Breton women engaged in
quiet activities, as here, reverie. The
subject is conventional as echoes the
work of countless visitors to Brittany im
the final decades of the nineteenth
century” Museum Guide.

43. Signac 1898

44. Dongen 1907
“The Dutch artist Kees van
Dongen (1877-1968)
captured the sensual cabaret
and night club performers of
Paris with stark honesty. The
woman’s gesture suggests
pensiveness, while her
sideways glance is seductive.”
Museum Guide.

45. Leech c1913 (Detail)

46. Bonnard 1923.

47. Orpen 1923.
“Orpen (1878-1931) managed to
represent McCormark’s imposing
stature without making this the
dominant of characteristic of the
portrait. Though the sitter’s
relaxed pose and tennis attire
seem rather incongruous with the
discipline at which he recalled,
they are consistent with
numerous portrayals of classical
singers of the period indeed “.
Museum guide.

48. “This work is one of a series
of oversized portrait heads
by Davidson of private and
public figures. It has been
executed with painterly
vigour typical of the artist
but also a sensitivity that
belies its monumental
scale.“ Museum guide.
Davidson 2011.

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