Oriel Gallery

Established in 1968 by Oliver Nulty, the Oriel Gallery is the oldest independent gallery of visual art in Ireland. Indeed, Oliver Nulty largely pioneered the exhibition and promotion of many Irish artists to art collectors both in Ireland and abroad. On the walls of the Gallery premises - a large Georgian house close by the National Gallery of Ireland - art collectors can see all the great Irish portraitists, landscape, still life and figure painters, as well as the cream of Irish contemporary abstract artists. Indded, the gallery has dealt with almost all of the major Irish painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and has an unrivalled experience of the Irish art market.

The Juggler With Golden Balls
(Markey Robinson)

Oriel Artists

Nulty's contacts and expertise has facilitated important relationships with numerous renowned artists including: the landscape, figure painter and sculptor Markey Robinson, the watercolourist Percy French, to name but two. In addition, the Gallery has developed considerable experience in dealing with the works of noted Irish and international visual artists including: George 'AE' Russell, William Conor, Paul Henry, James Humbert Craig, Frank McKelvey, Francis Bacon, Sandra Bell, Antoine Bouvard, George Campbell, William Crozier, Salvador Dali, Thomas Danby, Bernard de Hoog, Gerard Dillon, Nina Divito, Felim Egan, William Blandford Fletcher, Letitia Hamilton, Edwin Hayes, Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Mainie Jellett, John Lavery, James le Jeune, Roderic O'Conor, Tony O'Malley, Daniel O'Neill, William Orpen, William Scott, Neil Shawcross, Camille Souter, Mary Swanzy, Henry Jones Thaddeus, Jack B. Yeats.

Art Shows

The Oriel hosts numerous group exhibitions featuring such talents as Walter Osborne, William Leech, William Sadler, Maurice MacGonigal, Charles Lamb, Stanhope Forbes and Norman Garstin. It has a permanent display of contemporary and abstract paintings by such artists as Louis le Brocquy, Colin Middleton, Gerard Dillon, and Gretta O'Brien.

For more information about visual artists represented by the Gallery, solo or group shows, and services provided to art-collectors, please contact:

The Oriel Gallery
Clare Street
Dublin 2
Phone: 01-676-3410
Website: theoriel.com

• For details of other Leinster fine art exhibitions and collections, see: Irish Art Galleries and Museums.
• For facts about painting and sculpture in Ireland, see: Guide to Irish Art

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