Cosmopolitan yet connected to local issues, Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt played a prominent role in promoting Ireland’s cultural institutions at a pivotal time in their early history, writes Philip McEvansoneya
Philip McEvansoneya explores the work of John Currie, an artist not well known in Ireland, even though he visited the country, painted Irish subjects and exhibited in Dublin
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Philip McEvansoneya follows the trail of a painting of Rembrandt’s wife, Saskia, from the shadow of the Galtee Mountains through Hermann Göring’s art collection, to Saskia’s hometown in the Netherlands
Philip McEvansoneya traces Dublin-born Stanhope Alexander Forbes’ early years in Ireland
Philip McEvansoneya considers the work of Joseph Stafford Gibson, a major patron of the Crawford Municipal School of Art and significant painter in his own right
Philip McEvansoneya considers a painting of an Irish subject by the English artist Walter Sickert
Philip McEvansoneya considers how the Trench Collection of Tibetan art in the National Museum of Ireland was acquired by the collector, and the museum, and asks if it’s time this ethnographic display was made more accessible to the public