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William Grimaldi (1751-1830), Hester Frances, Lady Bellingham
(1763-1844), c.1795
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Light in the Darkness Turner's Watercolours & Silhouettes and
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1-31 JANUARY 2010
The National
Gallery of Ireland's famous Vaughan collection of watercolours by
JMW Turner (1775-1851) will be on display for the month of January.
It includes Turner's most striking works in watercolour painted
during his later European tours: the Doge's Palace in Venice, Lake
Lucerne, and the fortresses at Bellinzona in Switzerland. This year
the exhibition will be complemented by a display of seventeenth-,
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century silhouettes and miniatures
from the Mary A. McNeill Bequest, comprising works by John Comerford,
Richard Crosse and William Grimaldi. These delicate likenesses,
painted in watercolour on ivory or enamel on copper, were popular
in Turner's day and were prized as keepsakes and sometimes worn
as jewellery. The collection was bequeathed to the Gallery in 1984
by Mary A. McNeill, a notable Belfast collector and historian. A
fully illustrated brochure complementing the display of miniatures
is available from the Gallery Shop.
Print Gallery.
Admission free.
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Strule Arts Centre,
Omagh, Co. Tyrone
13 JANUARY TO 13 FEBRUARY
2010
The Gallery's contemporary print exhibition, 'Revelation', will
complete its tour of regional galleries and arts venues with a month-long
display at the Strule Arts Centre.
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(some dates &
titles of exhibitions may be subject to change)
13 March - 25 July
2010
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
A decade of acquisitions at the National Gallery of Ireland will
be showcased in an exhibition reflecting the different areas of
the Collection. It will include works by Continental Masters from
mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century (such as Van Gogh, Renoir,
Caillebote, Bonnard, Pechstein and Feininger) and Old Masters (Cuyp,
Maratti, Honthorst and Zoffany). The exhibition will also feature
a number of important additions to the Irish collection, from landscapes
by Thomas Roberts and George Barret to Modernist painters and Louis
le Brocquy. The National Portrait Collection has been strengthened
in recent years by writers, politicians and artists' portraits.
Complementing the paintings are works on paper and miniatures, where
Boucher, Orpen, Maclise, Burton, Brockhurst, Gleizes, Turner and
Jack B. Yeats are represented.
4 September - 5 December
2010
GABRIEL METSU (1629-1667)
This exhibition will pay homage to the Dutch seventeenth-century
artist, Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) and his exquisite scenes of daily
life, which rank among the finest of the Dutch Golden Age. It will
also highlight some of Metsu's lesser known achievements in the
fields of history painting, portraiture and still life. Metsu started
his career in Leiden, where he painted biblical scenes on a large
format. After his move to Amsterdam in the middle of the 1650s,
he changed his specialisation to intimate scenes of daily life.
As Metsu's style became more meticulous in the 1660s, he focused
increasingly on representing the pastimes of the upper class. He
died at the age of thirty-seven, having painted a varied oeuvre
of more than 130 paintings. Few of his colleagues were as versatile
as Metsu and his handling of the brush was almost unrivalled. Moreover,
his paintings display a unique approach to daily activities, marked
by a psychological interest in the people he portrayed. An accompanying
catalogue will be published to coincide with the exhibition
Touring Venues:
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (21 December 2010 to 21 March 2011); National
Gallery of Art, Washington (17 April to 24 July 2011).
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