in detail
The National Gallery of Ireland, founded by Act of Parliament in 1854, houses the most important collection of historic Irish painting (17th -20th C.), and has an extensive representation of all the major schools of European painting (14th-20th C.). The collection comprises some 13,000 works of art; over 2,500 oil paintings, approximately 5,400 drawings, watercolours and miniatures; over 3,000 prints and 350 pieces of sculpture and objets d'art.
Highlights of the collection include masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Mantegna, Caravaggio, Poussin, Rembrandt, van Honthorst, Vermeer, Goya, Murillo, Gainsborough, and Reynolds. Irish masterpieces include works by Thomas Roberts, William Ashford, James Barry, Nathaniel Hone, John Lavery, Paul Henry, William Orpen, and Jack B. Yeats.
The National Gallery of Ireland has also been home to the National Portrait Collection since 1884. More recently, in 2002, it has opened a Yeats Museum, and a new 4,000 sq m wing to the Gallery.
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