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A selection of artists in the collection

  • Daniel Maclise, 'Self-Portrait' (frontispiece to O'Driscoll's 'A Memoir of Daniel Maclise R.A.,' 1871), 1829. © National Gallery of Ireland

    Daniel Maclise

    Find out more about the Cork-born artist

  • Oil painting self-portrait by James Barry

    James Barry

    Irish painter, draughtsman, printmaker and writer

  • Oil painting self portrait by George Mulvany

    George Francis Mulvany

    The National Gallery of Ireland's first director

  • Caravaggio from Bellori's Vite, 1728.

    Caravaggio

    Inspired hundreds of followers

  • Pencil portrait of Frederic William Burton

    Frederic William Burton

    Artist and gallery director

  • Margaret Clarke (1888–1961), 'Self-portrait as a jockey, wearing a crois'. © The artist's estate. Photograph © National Gallery of Ireland

    Margaret Clarke

    One of Ireland's leading portrait painters

  • Engraved portrait of Guercino

    Guercino

    A master of the Italian baroque

  • Oil painting portrait of Bartholomew Colles Watkins

    Batholomew Colles Watkins

    A prominent nineteenth-century landscape painter

  • Maria Spilsbury Taylor, 'Self-portrait holding drawing', c.1815. Image © National Gallery of Ireland.

    Maria Spilsbury Taylor

    A painter of portraits, landscapes and genre scenes

  • Jack B. Yeats at work. © National Gallery of Ireland

    Jack B. Yeats

    One of Ireland's most popular painters

  • Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808 ), 'Portrait of Thomas Roberts (1748-1777), Artist', c.1769. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

    Thomas Roberts

    A great Irish landscape painter

  • Helen Mabel Trevor (1831-1900), 'Self-portrait', c.1890s. © National Gallery of Ireland

    Helen Mabel Trevor

    Irish artist inspired by French realism

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