Hugh Lane: Founder of a Gallery of Modern Art for Ireland

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Hugh Lane: Founder of a Gallery of Modern Art for IrelandThis publication celebrates the pioneering achievement of Hugh Lane in founding a gallery of modern art, one of the world's first, in Dublin a century ago. Lane was a Cork born, London based art dealer who was among the first to collect French Impressionist paintings. His ambition to establish a gallery of modern art, now Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, was realised in 1908 with an astonishing collection of Irish, British and Continental work

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London-based art dealer who was among the first to collect French Impressionist paintings

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