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{{short description|Art museum in Dublin, Ireland}}
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| established = {{Start date|1864}}
| location = Merrion Square West, [[Dublin]], Ireland
| type = [[Art museum]]
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| director = [[Caroline Campbell (museum director)|Caroline Campbell]]
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The '''National Gallery of Ireland''' ({{langx|ga|Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann}}) houses the 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, Dublin|Clare Street]]. It was founded in 1854 and opened its doors ten years later.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgallery.ie/history|title=History|website=National Gallery of Ireland|access-date=2018-08-21}}</ref> The gallery has an extensive, representative collection of Irish paintings and is also notable for its [[Baroque painting#Italian|Italian Baroque]] and [[Dutch Golden Age painting|Dutch masters]] painting. The current director is [[Caroline Campbell (museum director)|Caroline Campbell]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Gallery of Ireland appoints first female director |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/08/04/national-gallery-appoints-first-female-director/ |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=The Irish Times}}</ref>

== History ==
In 1853 an [[Exhibition game|exhibition]], the [[Great Industrial Exhibition (1853)|Great Industrial Exhibition]], was held on the lawns of [[Leinster House]] in Dublin. Among the most popular exhibits was a substantial display of works of art organised and underwritten by the railway magnate [[William Dargan]]. The enthusiasm of the visiting crowds demonstrated a public appreciation for art, and it was decided to establish a permanent public art collection as a lasting monument of gratitude to Dargan. The moving spirit behind the proposal was the [[barrister]] [[John Edward Pigot]] (1822–1871), son of [[David Richard Pigot]], [[Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer]], and he became one of the first governors of the gallery.<ref>National Gallery of Ireland Act 1854 section 7.</ref> The façade of the National Gallery copies the Natural History building of the [[National Museum of Ireland]] which was already planned for the facing flank of Leinster House. The building itself was designed by [[Francis Fowke]], based on early plans by [[Charles Lanyon]], and was completed and opened in 1864.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=1854–2004 : the story of the National Gallery Of Ireland|last=Peter.|first=Somerville-Large|date=2004|publisher=National Gallery of Ireland|isbn=1904288081|location=[Dublin]|oclc=57429422}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

The gallery was not founded around an existing collection, and when the gallery opened it had just 112 paintings.<ref name=":0" /> In 1866 an annual purchase grant was established and by 1891 space was already limited.<ref name=":1" /> In 1897, the Dowager Countess of Milltown indicated her intention of donating the contents of [[Russborough House]] to the gallery. This gift included about 223 paintings, 48 pieces of sculpture, 33 engravings, much silver, furniture and a library, and prompted construction from 1899 to 1903 of what is now called the Milltown Wing, designed by [[Thomas Newenham Deane]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/reading-the-pictures-1.126214|title=Reading the pictures|work=The Irish Times|access-date=2018-08-21}}</ref>

At around this time [[Henry Vaughan (art collector)|Henry Vaughan]] left 31 watercolours by [[J. M. W. Turner]] with the requirement that they could only be exhibited in January, this to protect them from the ill-effects of sunlight. Though modern lighting technology has made this stipulation unnecessary, the gallery continues to restrict viewing of the Vaughan bequest to January and the exhibition is treated as something of an occasion.

Another substantial bequest came with the untimely death in the sinking of the {{RMS|Lusitania||2}} of [[Hugh Lane]] (1875–1915), since 1914 director of the gallery; not only did he leave a large collection of pictures, he also left part of his residual estate and the Lane Fund has continued to contribute to the purchase of artworks to this day. In addition to his involvement in the gallery, Hugh Lane had also hoped to found a gallery of modern art, something only realised after his death in the [[Hugh Lane Gallery]]. [[George Bernard Shaw]] also made a substantial bequest, leaving the gallery a third of royalties of his estate in gratitude for the time he spent there as a youth.<ref>{{cite book |last=De Breffny |first=Brian |author-link= |date=1983 |title=Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopedia |url= |location=London |publisher=Thames and Hudson |page=165|isbn=}}</ref>

The gallery was again extended in 1962 with a new wing designed by Frank DuBerry of the [[Office of Public Works]]. This opened in 1968 and is now named the Beit Wing. In 1978 the gallery received from the government the paintings given to the nation by [[Chester Beatty Library|Chester Beatty]] and in 1987 the Sweeney bequest brought fourteen works of art including paintings by [[Picasso]] and [[Jack B. Yeats]]. The same year the gallery was once again given some of the contents of [[Russborough House]] when [[Alfred Lane Beit|Alfred Beit]] donated 17 masterpieces, including paintings by [[Diego Velázquez|Velázquez]], [[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo|Murillo]], [[Jan Steen|Steen]], [[Johannes Vermeer|Vermeer]] and [[Henry Raeburn|Raeburn]].

In the 1990s a lost [[Caravaggio]], ''[[The Taking of Christ]]'', known through replicas, was discovered hanging in a [[Jesuit]] house of studies in Leeson Street in Dublin by [[Sergio Benedetti]], senior conservator of the gallery.  The Jesuits have allowed this painting to be exhibited in the gallery and the discovery was the cause of national excitement. The painting was on loan to an Italian gallery from February until July 2010 as part of Caravaggio's 400th anniversary. In 1997 [[Anne Yeats]] donated sketchbooks by her uncle [[Jack Yeats]] and the gallery now includes a Yeats Museum. [[Denis Mahon]], a well-known art critic, promised the gallery part of his rich collection and eight painting from his promised bequest are on permanent display, including ''Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph'' by [[Guercino]].

=== List of directors ===

* [[George Mulvany]], 1861–1869
* [[Henry Edward Doyle|Henry Doyle]], 1869–1892
* [[Walter Armstrong (art historian)|Walter Armstrong]], 1892–1914
* [[Hugh Lane]], 1914–15
*[[Walter G. Strickland]], 1915–16
* [[Robert Langton Douglas]], 1916–1923
* [[Lucius O'Callaghan]], 1923–1927
* [[Thomas Bodkin]], 1927–1935
* [[George Furlong]], 1935–1950
* [[Thomas MacGreevy|Thomas McGreevy]], 1950–1963
* [[James White (art expert)|James White]], 1964–1980
* [[Homan Potterton]], 1980–1988
* [[Raymond Keaveney]], 1988–2012
* [[Sean Rainbird]], 2013–2022
* [[Caroline Campbell (museum director)|Caroline Campbell]] 2022–to present

== Millennium Wing ==
[[File:National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, March 2012 (06).JPG|upright=0.8|thumb|The Millennium Wing in March 2012]]
A new wing, called the Millennium Wing, was opened in 2002. Unlike the previous two extensions, this new wing has street frontage and the English architects [[Benson & Forsyth]] gave it an imposing Bowers Whitbed, [[Portland stone]] [[façade]] and grand [[atrium (architecture)|atrium]]. The design originally involved demolishing an adjoining [[Georgian Architecture|Georgian]] terrace house and its ballroom mews; however, the Irish planning appeals authority, An Bord Pleanála, required that they be retained.

== Master development plan ==
[[File:20130810 dublin025.JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|View of interior, c.2013]]
In March 2011, the Office of Public Works (OPW), in association with the gallery, commenced work on the historic complex at Merrion Square to address a critical need for the repair and renovation of the fabric of the Dargan (1864) and Milltown (1903) wings, together with the provision of much needed additional accommodation. The first phase of the works programme involved the removal and replacement of the Dargan Wing roof. The next two phases of the project involved the replacement of the Milltown Wing roof, followed by an extensive upgrade of the fabric and services of the two buildings whilst reclaiming their original period elegance. Refurbishment of the two wings was completed in June 2017.

== Location, access and facilities ==
The National Gallery of Ireland is located in the heart of [[Georgian Dublin]]. There are two entrances, one at [[Merrion Square]] and the other at Clare Street. Admission to the gallery is free and many talks, tours and events, as well as the audioguide, are also free of charge. The gallery launched a free smartphone app in 2013.

[[Dublin Bus]] routes 4, 7 and 7a all pass by the gallery. The [[Pearse Street]] [[Dublin Area Rapid Transit|DART]] station is 5 minutes on foot as is the Dawson stop on the green line of the [[Luas]]. The Abbey Street stop of the red line of the Luas is a 20-minute walk away. There are two [[dublinbikes]] stations just outside the gallery, one at Clare Street and the other at Merrion Square West.

All galleries and entrances are wheelchair and buggy accessible and there are disabled parking spaces outside the Merrion Square entrance. Tours for the visually and hearing impaired are regularly organised. Visitors with guide dogs are welcome in the gallery. The lecture theatre, AV room and gallery shop are all fitted with a loop system for the hearing impaired.

== 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.

<gallery class="center" widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
File:Clarice Orsini de Medici.JPG|[[Domenico Ghirlandaio]], Presumed ''Portrait of Clarice Orsini, Wife of Lorenzo the Magnificent'', before 1494
File:Mantegna, giuditta di dublino.jpg|[[Andrea Mantegna]], ''Judith'', 1490s
File:Werkst. Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Judith mit dem Kopf von Holofernes (National Gallery of Ireland).jpg|Workshop of  [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]],  ''Judith with the Head of Holofernes'', c 1550
File:Tiziano Vecelli - Ecce Homo (National Gallery of Ireland).jpg|[[Titian]], ''Ecce Homo'', 1558–60
File:Hendrick Avercam 045.jpg|[[Hendrick Avercamp]], ''Scene on the Ice'', c 1620
File:Rembrandt van Rijn - Interior with Figures (ca.1628).jpg|[[Rembrandt]], ''Interior with Figures'', 1628
File:Christ in the House of Martha and Mary 1628 Jan Bruegel2 and Rubens.jpg|[[Jan Brueghel the Younger]] and [[Peter Paul Rubens]], ''Christ in the House of Martha and Mary'', 1628
File:Paulus Moreelse - Girl - 1623.jpg|[[Paulus Moreelse]], ''Girl wearing a Gold Chain'', 1632
File:Rembrandt - Portrait of a Woman with Gloves - NGI.808.jpg|Rembrandt, ''Portrait of a Woman with Gloves'', c 1632–1642 
File:Hals, Frans - Fisher Boy - 1630-32.jpg|[[Frans Hals]], ''Fisher Boy'', c 1630–32
File:Dirck Hals - A Woman Sewing by Candlelight (1633).jpg|[[Dirck Hals]],  ''A Woman Sewing by Candlelight'', 1633
File:Sainte Famille - Poussin - National Gallery of Ireland.jpg|[[Nicolas Poussin]], ''The Holy Family'' (''Sainte Famille''), c 1649
File:Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael - Bentheim Castle - WGA20467.jpg|[[Jacob van Ruisdael]], ''Burg Bentheim'', 1653
File:La mulata, by Diego Velázquez.jpg|[[Diego Velázquez]], ''La mulata (La cena de Emaús)'', before 1660
File:William Hogarth 009.jpg|[[William Hogarth]], ''A Woman Swearing a Child to a Grave Citizen'', c.1729
File:Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs, by Frederic William Burton.jpg|[[Frederic William Burton]],  ''The Meeting on the Turret Stairs'', 1864
File:Walter Osborne In a Dublin Park, Light and Shade.jpg|[[Walter Osborne]], ''[[In a Dublin Park, Light and Shade]]'', 1895

</gallery>

=== 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) ''[[La mulata|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) ''[[Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate (1805)|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 (painter)|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 ===
[[File:The Taking of Christ-Caravaggio (c.1602).jpg|thumb|Caravaggio ''The Taking of Christ'' 1602]]
* [[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
* [[Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato|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<!-- see here:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Angelica_Kauffmann; she is a SWISS painter and her name ist '''Angelika Kauffmann''' (with "k" in the prename and double "n", ergo Kauffmann-->
* [[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 ===
[[Image:DublinVermeer.jpg|thumb|Johannes Vermeer ''[[Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid]]'' c.1670]]
* [[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
** ''[[Portrait of Omai|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 (painter)|George Romney]] (1734–1802) ''Titania, Puck and the Changeling, from Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' '' 1793
* [[David Wilkie (artist)|David Wilkie]] (1785–1841) ''[[Napoleon and Pius VII at Fontainebleau]]'', 1836
* [[John Singer Sargent]] (1856–1925) ''The Bead Stringers of Venice'' 1880–82
* [[Stanley Royle]] (1888–1961) ''The Goose Girl'' c.1921
* [[Francis Wheatley (painter)|Francis Wheatley]] (1747–1801) ''[[The Dublin Volunteers on College Green|The Dublin Volunteers on College Green, 4 November 1779]]'' 1779–80
* [[Andrew Festing]] (1941–present)

=== Irish ===
[[Image:MarriageAoifeStrongbow.jpg|thumb|right|''[[The Marriage of Aoife and Strongbow]]'' (1854) by [[Daniel Maclise]], a romanticised depiction of the marriage of [[Aoife MacMurrough]] in 1170]]
[[Image:Connemara Girl.jpg|thumb|150px| Augustus Nicholas Burke ''Connemara Girl'']]
[[File:The Poachers .PNG|thumb|''[[The Poachers]]'' by [[James Arthur O'Connor]], 1835]]
*[[Kevin Abosch]] (photographer) (1969) "Portrait of Brian O'Driscoll" 2011
* [[James Barry (painter)|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
* [[James Arthur O'Connor]] (1792–1841) ''[[The Poachers]]'', 1835
* [[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 (painter)|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 Yeats|Jack B. Yeats]] (1871–1957)
** ''Bachelor's Walk, in Memory'' 1915 (On loan from a private collection)<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.nationalgallery.ie/en/aboutus/pressroom/2009PressReleases/Recovered_Yeats_painting.aspx |title = Yeats Archive}}</ref>
** ''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

== Zurich Portrait Prize ==
Originally the Hennessy Portrait Prize, the Zurich Portrait Prize is an exhibition of commissioned artists creating works of portraiture. The Prize is open to artists in all mediums who are either citizens in Ireland or Irish citizens living abroad. The prize consists of €15,000 and a €5,000 commission to create a portrait that would be exhibited in the gallery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/zurich-portrait-prize-0|title=The Zurich Portrait Prize|website=National Gallery of Ireland|access-date=2019-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412173406/https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/zurich-portrait-prize-0|archive-date=12 April 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> Previous winners include:
* 2018 [[Mandy O'Neill]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/shortlist-for-national-portrait-prize-to-go-on-show-at-national-gallery-of-ireland-1.3647761|title=Shortlist for national portrait prize to go on show at National Gallery of Ireland|last=Dunne|first=Aidan|website=The Irish Times|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref>
* 2019 [[Enda Bowe]]<ref>{{cite web|title=National Gallery of Ireland: Zurich Portrait Prize 2019|url=https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/zurich-portrait-prize-2019|access-date=23 December 2019}}</ref>
* 2020 Aidan Crotty<ref>{{cite web|title=14-year-old wins art prize for masked portrait of her sister|date=2020-12-09|url=https://www.thejournal.ie/winners-zurich-portrait-prize-5293341-Dec2020/|access-date=2024-06-06}}</ref>
* 2021 [[Salvatore of Lucan]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Salvatore of Lucan wins 2021 Zurich Portrait Prize|date=2021-12-01|url=https://www.rte.ie/culture/2021/0816/1240523-in-the-picture-zurich-portrait-prize-shortlist-2021/|access-date=2024-06-06}}</ref>
* 2022 David Booth<ref>{{cite web|title=Zurich Portrait Prize 2022|url=https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/zurich-portrait-prize-2022|access-date=2024-06-06}}</ref>
* 2023 Ruaidhrí Condon<ref>{{cite web|title=Dublin teenager wins Zurich Young Portrait Prize|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2023/1212/1421604-portrait-dublin/|access-date=2024-06-06}}</ref>
* 2024 TBC

When it was the Hennessy Portrait Prize, the prize winners were:
* 2014 [[Nick Miller (artist)|Nick Miller]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Hennessy Portrait Prize|url=https://www.nationalgallery.ie/explore-and-learn/hennessy-portrait-prize|access-date=26 December 2019}}</ref>
* 2015 [[Vera Klute]]
* 2016 Gerry Davis
* 2017 Jack Hickey<ref>{{cite web|title=Hennessy Portrait Prize 2017|url=https://www.nationalgallery.ie/HPP-2017|access-date=26 December 2019}}</ref>

== Library and archives collections ==
The [https://www.nationalgallery.ie/what-we-do/library-and-archives library and archives collections] at the National Gallery of Ireland encompass unique and historically significant collections for the study of art history.  The origins of the collections can be traced back to the foundation of the institution over one hundred and sixty years ago. Covering the visual arts from the classical to the contemporary these collections continue to be a vital research element of the National Collection.  The development of the library and archive has been supported principally through public funding and the private donations of generous benefactors.

Open to the public, it has particularly rich holdings relating to the history of western European art from the Middle Ages on, and the collections relating to Irish and Italian art are extensive. The collection amounts to over 100,000 published volumes, in addition to significant archival holdings.

==See also==
* [[List of national galleries]]

== References ==
=== Citations ===
{{Reflist}}

=== Sources ===
;[[Irish Statute Book]]
* [http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1854/act/99/enacted/en/html National Gallery of Ireland Act 1854]
* [http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1855/act/44/enacted/en/html National Gallery of Ireland Act 1855]
* National Gallery (Amendment) Act 1865: see {{cite book|title=Public General Statutes |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5EMvAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA307 |volume=28 & 29 Vict. |year=1865 |publisher=Eyre and Spottiswoode |pages=307–310 |chapter=Cap. LXXI: An Act to amend the Acts for the Establishment of a National Gallery in Dublin |location=London}}
* [http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1928/act/20/enacted/en/html National Gallery of Ireland Act 1928]
* [http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1963/act/5/enacted/en/html National Gallery of Ireland Act 1963]
* [http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1997/act/11/enacted/en/print#partvi National Cultural Institutions Act 1997, Part VI]

;Secondary
* Raymond Keaveney (2002), ''The National Gallery of Ireland: Essential Guide''. London: Scala Publishers. {{ISBN|1-85759-267-0}}
* Homan Potterton (2003), ''The National Gallery of Ireland'' in Brian Lalor (Ed.) ''[[The Encyclopedia of Ireland]]''. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. {{ISBN|0-7171-3000-2}}
* Homan Potterton, Introduction to ''National Gallery of Ireland: Illustrated Summary Catalogue of Paintings''. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. {{ISBN|0-7171-1145-8}}

== External links ==
{{commons category|National Gallery of Ireland}}
*[http://www.nationalgallery.ie/ National Gallery of Ireland website]
*[https://www.archiseek.com/2002-national-gallery-of-ireland-millennium-wing-clare-street-dublin/ The Millennium Wing on Archiseek.com]
*[http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/eppi_lc_subjects/2838 Reports of the Director of the National Gallery of Ireland 1883–1920] from EPPI (Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland)

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