Portrait of a Young Woman, by
Cork sculptor John Hogan.
See below, for Examples of Modern
Irish Sculptures, not in NGI Collection.
Sculpture At The National Gallery
The National Gallery of Ireland, which opened in 1864, is situated in the heart of Dublin with entrances onto Merrion Square and Clare Street. It houses the national collection of European and Irish art, including a number of works by outstanding sculptors, in bronze, stone and wood, as well as watercolours and oils by a number of Old Masters.
The NGI's sculpture collection, dating principally from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is dispersed throughout the building in various picture galleries. In previous years, a number of plaster casts from Greek sculpture were exhibited on the ground floor. Nowadays, the study of such antiquities is enhanced by the Gallery's collection of eighteenth century marble copies, executed by Cavaceppi and Piamontini, and by the smaller Florentine bronzes of Hercules (by Tacca) and the late eighteenth century statue of Adonis (by Poncet).
