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Recent Acquisitions

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
Nu devant la glace ou Baigneuse, 1915
Oil on canvas, 59.9 x 51 cm
Purchased, Christie's (New York), May 2009

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst RA (1890-1978)
4 portrait etchings, various sizes;
A Connemara Peasant, February 1921 (16.5 x 11.3cm)
A Ballynakill Woman, 1924 (13.5 x 10cm)
A Galway Peasant, July 1920 (10 x 12.5cm)
Francis McNamara, 1920 (12.5 x 9.5cm)
Purchased, Whyte's (Dublin), March 2009

George Collie (1904-1975)
The Midday Meal, c.1927
Oil on board, 71 x 91.5cm
Purchased, Gorry Gallery, July 2009

Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808)
Portrait of Thomas Roberts (1748-1777)
Pastel and graphite on paper, 27 x 22cm
Purchased, Private Collection, March 2009

Aloysius O'Kelly (1853-c.1941)
Preparing for Winter, 1880s
Oil on canvas, 61.1 x 50.6cm
Presented, July 2009

Sir William Orpen, RHA, RA (1878-1931)
Portrait of John Count McCormack (1884-1945), 1923
Oil on canvas, 104 x 86.4cm
Purchased, Christie's (London), May 2009

Sir William Orpen, RHA, RA (1878-1931)
Kneeling figure of a woman - study for The Holy Well
Graphite on paper, 59.2 x 48.2cm
Purchased, Sotheby's (London), May 2009

Sarah Henrietta Purser HRHA (1848-1943)
Portrait Study: Mrs. Moore, 24 Powers Court
Charcoal and white chalk on paper, 47 x 34cm
Purchased, Whyte's (Dublin), March 2009

Thomas Hickey (1741-1824)
Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden and his Wife Anne, c.1769 (before conservation)
Oil on canvas, 125 x 99.5cm
Purchased, Sotheby's (London), 2009

William Scott (1913-1989)
Frying Pan, Eggs and Napkin, 1950
Oil on canvas, 74 x 91 cm
Purchased, Offer Waterman & Co., London, 2010Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940)
4 etchings of landscapes, various measurements, dated 1893
Purchased, Thierry-Lannon et Associés, Brest, 2009

Mick O'Dea RHA (b.1958)
Portrait of Brian Friel (b.1929), playwright, 2009
Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 50.5 cm
Commissioned, National Gallery
of Ireland, 2009

Sean O'Sullivan (1906-1964)
The Connoisseur
Lithograph, 320mm x 240mm
Purchased, James Adam, 2009

John B. Yeats RHA
(1839-1922)
2 graphite works on paper,
various measurements:
Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (1868-1940)
Elkin Mathews (1851-1921)
Purchased, Adam's/Bonhams, 2009

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