Some of the world's greatest paintings, including masterpieces by artists from Rubens to Rembrandt
Founded by an Act of Parliament in 1854 and opened to the public in 1864, the National Gallery of Ireland is home to the national collection of Irish and European fine art. The gallery houses an impressive collection of over 16,300 works of art, complemented by the National Portrait Collection, reference art library and archive collections.
The collection spans the 14th century to the present day, including the major artists from the canon of Western European art history, such as Fra Angelico, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Goya, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Pablo Picasso, Gabriele Münter and Lyonel Feininger. The gallery’s most prominent holdings are works by Irish artists, such as Daniel Maclise, Nathaniel Hone, Thomas Roberts, Roderic O’Conor, John Lavery, William Orpen, Paul Henry, Evie Hone, Jack B Yeats, Norah McGuinness and Louis le Brocquy.
Read LessCollection Highlights
Henry RaeburnPortrait of Sir John and Lady Clerk of Penicuik, c.1791
PeruginoThe Lamentation over the Dead Christ, c.1495
Claude MonetArgenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat, 1874
Francisco de GoyaPortrait of Doña Antonia Zárate, c.1805
Antonio CanovaAmorino, 1789
