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    GORRY GALLERY AT TIMELESS – THE IRISH ANTIQUE DEALERS FAIR

    Saturday, September 24th, 2022

    A pair of gouaches from Samuel Dixons mid 18th century “Foreign and Domestick Birds” are among the works being exhibited by the Gorry Gallery at Timeless, the Irish Antique Dealers Fair which continues today and tomorrow at the RDS.  This is Gorry’s first time exhibiting at the fair, which is designed to appeal to a broad audience.  There will be specialist interest too in a c1785 demi lune side table by renowned Dublin maker William Moore.  Contemporary pieces include an original Brionvega RR126 record player and speaker similar to a set in the collection of the late David Bowie. To be displayed by Acquired it will stand alongside mid century pieces like a Camelonda sofa by Mario Bellini.  Gallery Zozimus, which has opened at a new location at Francis St. in Dublin, is at the fair too.

    IRISH PAINTINGS AT GORRY GALLERY EXHIBITION

    Monday, November 1st, 2021
    George Barret c.1732-1784, A Classical Landscape with Figures and Classical Ruins based on the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli

    Irish paintings from 1730 to the present go on exhibition at the Gorry Gallery, Molesworth St., Dublin from today until November 19. The exhibition includes some 18th century rediscoveries including this classical landscape by George Barret. Another rediscovery is a dead game subject by Charles Collins. There are marine subjects by Richard Brydges Beechey, a study for St. Patrick’s Day, a masterpiece by Erskine Nicol at the National Gallery of Ireland and art by John Henry Campbell, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, James Francis Danby, Patrick Haverty, Nathaniel Hone the younger, Jeremiah Hodges Mulcahy, George Mullins, James Arthur O’Connor, Walter F. Osborne, William Sadler II and Jack B. Yeats.

    IRISH PAINTINGS ON SHOW AT THE GORRY GALLERY

    Monday, October 12th, 2020

    A a postponed exhibition of 18th to 21st century Irish paintings at the Gorry Gallery in Dublin now runs from October 12-31.  With artists ranging from George Barret and Adam Buck to Robert Ballagh this is a particularly fine and wide ranging show.  It can be viewed in person or online at www.gorrygallery.ie

    William Sadler (1782-1839) – View of Westport House, Co. Mayo with Croagh Patrick in the distance

    IRISH ART AT GORRY GALLERY IN DUBLIN

    Saturday, May 18th, 2019

    This painting by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson – Naval Ships off Roches Point – show two frigates of the Royal Navy with a date that appears to read 1855.  The former curator of the Crawford Gallery Peter Murray reckons it to be one of the most significant works by the Cork artist.  Atkinson was born in Cove, later Queenstown and now Cobh,  around 1806 and spent his early life at sea as a ships carpenter. He became government surveyor of shipping and emigrants at Queenstown, where he was known as Captain Atkinson. He was a self taught artist whose works show a thorough knowledge of the sea. His three sons and one daughter all later became painters. Atkinson first showed at the Cork Art Union in 1841 and exhibited in the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1842.  The work will be displayed at the Gorry Gallery, Molesworth St., Dublin as part of an exhibition of 17th-21st century Irish art which runs from May 23 until June 8.

    REDISCOVERED MCDONALD ART AT GORRY GALLERY SHOW

    Monday, March 11th, 2019

    An exciting discovery of around 40 drawings and watercolours by Daniel Macdonald (1821-1853) will be exhibited at the Gorry Gallery in Dublin from March 28.  They give a visual insight into life and society in Cork in the early 1840’s and demonstrate his empathy for the rural people of Ireland. Daniel Macdonald’s impressive graphic skills are demonstrated in images like Blindman’s Buff, Irish Jig-house, Apple Bobbing and The Day after the Fair. According to the catalogue note by Professor Niamh O’Sullivan, author of In the Lion’s Den: Daniel MacDonald, Ireland and Empire: “His crowd scenes are replete with detail, abound with energy and scintillate with wit, and the articulation of character and narrative is compelling”.  A number of the drawings were executed on board the yacht Hebe in Cobh and date to 1843-44, just prior to his departure for London.  His 1847 painting of An Irish Peasant Family discovering the Blight in their Store, shown at the British Institution, had the distinction until recently of being the only Irish painting that directly confronted the famine.  “His paintings are without precedence, not only in the Irish and British canon, but in French art then considered the most radical of all”, Niamh O’Sullivan notes.

    Daniel Macdonald – Hedge School

    18TH TO 21ST CENTURY IRISH PAINTINGS AT GORRY GALLERY

    Saturday, June 9th, 2018

    Portrait of a young girl by Charles Skottowe (1793-1842)

    A rarity by a Cork artist, a portrait of a young girl playing with her mother’s jewellery box, features at the current exhibition at the Gorry Gallery in Dublin.  Very few works by Charles Skottowe (1793-1842) survive.  Skottowe is recorded as working in Cork in the 1820’s and exhibiting with the Cork Society for promoting the Fine Arts.  He showed at the RHA in 1829.

    In the following decade he exhibited with the Royal Academy and the British Institution.  His portrait of Capt Sir William Edward Parry is at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and his portrait of John Ayrton Paris is in the Royal College of Physicians in London.
    The exhibition of 18th to 21st century Irish paintings and sculpture, accompanied by a scholarly catalogue, runs to June 23.  A still life of Crab, Fish and Vegetables by another and better known locally Cork artist
    Daniel MacDonald (1820-1853) is inscribed Cork and dated 1843.  There are portraits by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Nathanial Hone, William Cumming and others, landscapes and seascapes by William Ashford, James Arthur O’Connor, George Barret and Edwin Hayes as well as The Colleen Bawn and The Colleen Dhu, peasants of the County Galway, by Samuel Lover (1797-1868).  The catalogue cover lot is a c1789 portrait of a young gentleman in Naples by Hugh Douglas Hamilton.

    Still Life of crab, fish and vegetables by Daniel MacDonald (1820-1853)

    The Colleen Bawn and the Colleen Dhu by Samuel Lover (1797-1868)