Annual Turner show to travel to Belfast
The celebrated collection of Turner watercolours in the National Gallery of Ireland is to be exhibited outside of Dublin for the first time.
The works are to go on temporary loan to the Ulster Museum in Belfast where they will be on show from 2nd to 31st January 2002.
The Turner exhibition is traditionally held in the National Gallery in January but this year the Gallery will close to the public from December 17 to allow for a re-hang of the permanent collection and the Impressionist exhibition prior to the opening of the new Millennium Wing on January 22.
The exhibition consists of 31 watercolours and drawings by the English born artist, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851).
They were bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1900 by Henry Vaughan (1808-99).
Under the terms of the Vaughan bequest the Turner watercolours and drawings must be "exhibited to the public all at one time free of charge during the month of January in every year."
In his will, Henry Vaughan divided his collection of Turner's works between the National Gallery of Ireland, the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the National Gallery of Scotland.
