Paintings taken out of basement storage for exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland.
For the next three months it is possible to see many paintings which are being exhibited in public for the first time.
Seán Keating’s Homage to Frans Hals is in the company of a plethora of portraits – Iseult Gonne by George Russell (AE), Douglas Hyde by John Butler Yeats and Jack Yeats by Sarah Purser.
The Continental and British schools of painting are well represented, with an adoration of the Magi from the Flemish school, the Infant Saint John Playing with a Lamb by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and an Italian Cain and Abel from the seventeenth century. Icons from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries take up an entire wall space.
Also on show is George Collier’s portrait of George Bernard Shaw,
The man who's become something of a patron saint of the National Gallery.
This playwright, Nobel laureate and generous benefactor bequeathed one third of the royalties from his estate to the gallery.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 24 February 1982. The reporter is Caroline Erskine.
