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  • NEWEST SCULPTURE ACQUISITION ON VIEW AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND

    Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) Head of Dr Solomons Snr (1885-1965), c.1955 Bequeathed, Dr Bethel Eric Robert Solomons, 2012 (c) The Estate of Sir Jacob Epstein.

    A portrait bust by Sir Jacob Epstein of Dr. Bethel Solomons is the newest sculpture acquisition at the National Gallery of Ireland. It is included in a display from the permanent collection now on show in the gallery’s Millennium Wing. More than 40 pieces of sculpture, many of which have not been on public view for some time, can be seen. There are marble and bronze busts and figurative works by Irish and Euorpean artists including: Oisin Kelly (Portrait of Austin Clarke), William J. Leech (Head of May), Seamus Murphy (Frank O’Connor), John Thomas (Daniel Maclise), Peter Turnerelli (Henry Grattan) and busts by Oliver Sheppard of Cathal Brugha, and George William Russell. One of the larger pieces from the collection, Paul Troubetskoy’s life-size statue of George Bernard Shaw, has been placed just outside the Irish galleries in the Millennium Wing.
    Bethel Solomons served as Master of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin from 1926 to 1933 and later served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He was a founder member and first President of the Liberal Synagogue in Dublin and an Irish international rugby player. His sister Estella Solomons is represented in the Gallery’s collection by several works including a self-portrait.

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