✨ZURICH YOUNG PORTRAIT PRIZE 2023 - SHORTLIST✨ Hot on the heels of yesterday's Zurich Portrait Prize shortlist, here are the brilliant finalists in the under 18 competition. Congratulations to the twenty shortlisted artists, and well done to everyone who entered this year! 👏 ⭐️Ages 6 and under - Elijah Coada (aged 4), Sharing Toys is Hard - Elise O’Reilly (aged 6), My Granny on a Thursday - Isabel Brogan (aged 6), Isabel and her technicoloured dream jumper - Nadia Navikone (aged 5), Colourful Nadia - Pierre Gaultier Swords (aged 6), My Brother Noah ⭐️Ages 7-11 - Adam Wiercioch Chinatamunnee (aged 7), My Father - Conor Mooney (aged 10), My Selfie - Jasmine Jaiyeola (aged 8), My Beautiful Mom - Mary-Jane Brogan (aged 10), Away with the Fairies - Rebecca O’Donoghue (aged 9), Sam Won’t Eat His Cornflakes ⭐️Ages 12-15 - Estella Morrissey (aged 15), Travel With Optimism - Gabby Kim (aged 15), My Sleeping Mother - Maya Ryan (aged 14), Reach for me - Ruaidhrí Condon (aged 15), Self Portrait - Zihan He (aged 14), Parenthood ⭐️Ages 16-18 - Robin Wolfe (aged 17), The mirror on my bedroom wall - Ross McHale (aged 18), Ravens' Reflection - Solomon Doyle (aged 17), Portrait of an Artist: A Reflection of His Ensuing Self - Gianna Fitzgibbon (aged 16), Portrait of my Baby Brother - Madia Rahman Kushi (aged 18), Reflections of Myself 🔎See the portraits in more detail in today’s Story. 🗓The exhibition will open here on 2 December, and the winners will be announced on 12 December. The judges for the Zurich Young Portrait Prize competition are: Jessica O’Donnell, Head of Education and Community Outreach, @thehughlane, @ola.majekodunmi, writer, broadcaster and producer, and @tommclean_art, visual artist and curator. Sponsored by @zurich_ireland, organised by the National Gallery of Ireland.

📣 ZURICH PORTRAIT PRIZE 2023 We’re so pleased to reveal the shortlist for this year's Zurich Portrait Prize. 26 artists, working across a variety of media – well done to you all! 🗓The exhibition will open here on 2 December and the winner will be announced on 12 December. ➡️Swipe through for a preview of the shortlisted works and take a closer look in today’s Story. • Gerry Blake, Courtney, living on a bus • Jana Bulochova, Infinite Self • Leo Byrne, Sheik Mikailu Bah • Comhghall Casey, Self Portrait • Ana Colomer, (sea)Urchin • Shane Coughlan, Patrick, back from the shops • Jonathan Daczkowski, Chloe McCarthy • Aisling Dunne, Before and After • Kit French, Self - Portrait - Light Through the Window • Ellius Grace, Sinéad O'Connor in Her Garden • Vanessa Jones, Wall (self-portrait) • Lynn Kennedy, Orpen Minded • Marie Le Men, Sean Hillen • Sarah Liddane, Waiting for inspiration • Paul MacCormaic, Annie Murphy, former lover of Bishop Eamonn Casey, Mother of Peter Casey, at her home in California • Ryan O’Sullivan, Life’s a Drag • Mantas Poderys, Shota • Katie Prior, Self Portrait in Compact Mirror • Sorcha Frances Ryder, Wide Awake • David Sexton, Jyellowl • Darragh Shanahan, Lara • Marie Smith, Armand • David Stephenson, Ann and Ollie, Main Street, Wexford • Bob Tait, Jim • Lee Welch, Jerry Saltz as Michelangelo "David" • Adrian Wojtas, Manou @zurich_ireland #NationalGalleryIRL #ZurichPortraitPrize #IrishArt #ZPP #Portraiture @gerrrybla @bylo_photography @leo.e.byrne @comhghall.casey.art @artwithanaennis @shane_esco @j_daczkowski @aisling_dunne_art @kitfrenchportraits @elliusgrace @vanessaleejones81 @lynn.kennedy.art @marie_lemen_artworks @paulmaccormaic @ryanosullivanphoto @mantaspoderys @katiesprior @sorchafrancesryder @msmithsculpture @david_stephenson_photography @bobtaitphoto @_leewelch_ @adrianwojtas

2022 was a very busy year here at the National Gallery of Ireland! Here are some of the key facts and figures that you might be interested in knowing: ✨We welcomed 788,650 visitors through our doors, and 883,799 online visitors ✨ 277,160 of you participated in our education events ✨We digitised 24,760 items from our library and archives collection ✨We acquired 194 new works, bringing our collection to 16,870 in total Thank you for all your support - we really do appreciate it, and we're looking forward to a great autumn filled plenty of new exhibitions, events and more that we think you'll enjoy. 🧡 📷 1. Visitors to our exhibition Turner: The Sun is God – Anthony Woods 2. National Drawing Day 2022 – Abe Neihum 3. Donna Rose and Grace O’Boyle at the launch of Source - Natoise Culhane 4. Harry Kernoff, Sunday Evening – Place du Combat, Paris, 1937 – acquired in 2022. Copyright the artist’s family.

Less than two weeks left to see Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker here at the National Gallery of Ireland. In this striking painting, Fontana portrays Cleopatra, Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt in the first century BC. Her depiction of this powerful figure is quite unlike other paintings of Cleopatra by Italian artists of the same period, who tended to show the Queen at the moment of her death – from a self-inflicted bite from an asp – and typically naked from the waist up. In contrast, Fontana shows the queen in a dignified pose, fully dressed in a loose-fitting red tunic, with the asp visible to the left. Her clothing recalls that worn by Ottoman women in Western prints of the 1570s. 🔗The exhibition continues here until 27 August, and you can see it for €5 after 5pm every Thursday. Friends of the Gallery and under 18s go free. Book your ticket at the link in our bio This exhibition is proudly supported by Bank of America, Exhibition Partner. The Gallery would like to thank the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media for their ongoing support. Image: Lavinia Fontana, Cleopatra, 1605. Per gentile concessione della Direzione Musei Statali della città di Roma – Galleria Spada. #NationalGalleryIRL #LaviniaFontana #Fontana #Renaissance #WomenArtists #ClosingSoon

Culture Night 2023 is coming up on Friday 22 September, and we're delighted to be taking part again this year. We have a great night planned, with free tours, exhibitions and workshops, a chance to find out more about our recent acquisition by Paul Cézanne, and the return of our collaboration with our neighbours in @franceinireland, Painting Mirror, which will see the façade of our Merrion Square building lit up with your portraits and landscapes. 🔗Find out more at the link in the bio (including how to send your photos in for the Painting Mirror Projection) and join us on the night. We 🧡Culture Night! 📷: Photo of the Gallery by Jack Caffrey, The Pimlico Project; Paul Cézanne, La Vie des Champs, 1876-77. #NationalGalleryIRL #CultureNight #CultureNightDublin #september

Plot twist! The summer seems to have finally (at least temporarily) returned to Ireland just as we reach the middle of August, which, as all Irish people know, is actually the first month of autumn. Confusing, but we’ll take it, and will happily seek out a patch of sunlight in which to recline, taking inspiration from the model in Orpen’s painting of the same name. ☀️ P.S. Look at the painting in the background here – it’s a view of the Seine at Argenteuil by Claude Monet which Orpen owned at the time, and is very similar to our own painting by Monet! ➡️Swipe through to see it more closely, and to take a look at our Monet. Images: 1. & 2. William Orpen (1878-1931), Sunlight, c.1925. 3. Claude Monet (1840–1926), Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat, 1874. #NationalGalleryIRL #WilliamOrpen #ClaudeMonet #IrishSummer #August #Sunshine

Margaret Clarke was born in Newry, County Down in August 1884. She moved to Dublin as a young woman to study at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, and in 1927, she became only the second woman artist to be elected a full Academician of the RHA. Margaret had met and fallen in love with fellow artist Harry Clarke while studying, and they married in 1915. Following his premature death in 1931, Margaret became a director of the Harry Clarke Studio and spent much of her time working to protect his artistic legacy, while also raising their three children and working - when she could - on her own art. ✨This painting, depicting a scene from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is currently on display as part of the exhibition It Took a Century: Women Artists and the RHA. Admission free. Image:  Margaret Clarke (1884 - 1961), Ophelia, c.1926. © the artist's estate. #NationalGalleryIRL #ItTookACentury #MargaretClarke

@nationalgalleryofireland Youth Panel member @claudia.la.mosca created a 'Queen of Sheba' collage in response to the ‘Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker’ exhibition. Leading up to the Youth Panel’s residency in the Education Studio, which will begin next Tuesday, 15 August, they are showcasing different forms of collages using their own images as well as artworks from the national collection. Claudia outlines their inspiration for this Fontana-themed digital collage:  “’Queen of Sheba’ is rich of details, so it was hard to choose which ones to highlight! Bologna, Fontana’s birth city, was known for its silk production. Much like today, garments were used as a status symbol. The ornate and expensive fabrics and jewels the people in the painting wear serve to demonstrate not only the wealth of the characters but also Fontana’s skill in depicting contemporary fashion.” From August 15 -26, join the Gallery’s Youth Panel in the Studio at @NationalGalleryofIreland as part of ‘Trailblazers, Rule Breakers, Art Maker’ Open Studio programme. We will experimenting with different collage making techniques. Everyone is welcome and all materials provided! This Open Studio is part of a series of events complementing our summer exhibition, Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker. See it in the Gallery until 27 August. Friends of the Gallery and under 18s go free. This exhibition is proudly supported by Bank of America, Exhibition Partner. The Gallery would like to thank the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media for their ongoing support. Images: Collage by Claudia Mosca, using Lavinia Fontana’s ‘The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon’. #BeAnArtMaker #ApolloProjectIRL #GalleryYouthPanel #Costume #Collage #NationalGalleryIRL #LaviniaFontana

National Heritage Week 2023 begins this weekend, and we are very glad to once again be taking part. We have lots of free events planned, including themed tours (Irish history! Music! A look at frames in our collection!) and what’s sure to be a really interesting drop-in display from our Library and Archive team looking at the Irish stained glass industry. 🔗Find out more at the link in our bio, and join us in the Gallery between 12 and 20 of August. #NationalGalleryIRL #HeritageWeek

📣Tickets are now on sale for our upcoming exhibition ‘Lavery. On Location’. Opening on 7 October, this will be the highlight of our autumn programme. Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) enjoyed great critical and commercial success during his lifetime. Born in Belfast, he travelled widely - always with his painting kit - and this exhibition will explore some of the key destinations he painted, from Scotland to Palm Springs. 🎟Find out more and book your tickets at the link in our bio. Friends of the Gallery always go free – join today. Lavery. On Location is proudly supported by @arthurcoxlaw, Exhibition Partner. This exhibition is organised by the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, in collaboration with National Museums NI and National Galleries of Scotland. We would like to thank @tourism.culture.gaeltacht for their ongoing support. Image: Sir John Lavery (1856-1941), Florida in Winter, 1927. Photograph © National Museums NI Ulster Museum Collection #NationalGalleryIRL #AutumnExhibition #JohnLavery #LaveryOnLocation

We’re open this holiday weekend with lots for you to explore and enjoy, including our summer exhibition Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker. Three weeks left to catch it before it closes on 27 August! 🎟Tickets are available on our website and at the link in the bio. Friends of the Gallery and under 18s go free. This exhibition is proudly supported by Bank of America, Exhibition Partner. The Gallery would like to thank the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media for their ongoing support.

“I have known no one who was so stirred at the thought of injustice and wrong, whether it was in Africa, America or Ireland. I have not met his equal for courtesy or kindliness or generosity . . . I do not expect to meet his like again.” - Bulmer Hobson on Roger Casement, who was executed on this day in 1916 for his part in the Easter Rising. These portraits from our collection were painted by Sarah Purser in 1914. This autumn we’ll have an exhibition of her work, supported by ESB, sponsor of the ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art. #nationalgalleryirl #rogercasement #irishart #sarahpurser #IrishHistory