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| | Ulster Museum : Collections : Art : Paintings : Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | By good fortune, the works by Gainsborough, Reynolds and Lawrence are portraits of sitters with strong Northern Irish connections, namely Arthur, 1st Marquess of Donegall (c.1780) by Gainsborough, Miss Theodosia Magill, afterwards Countess of Clanwilliam (1765) by both Gainsborough and Reynolds, and Harriet Anne, Countess of Belfast (c.1822-23) by Lawrence. |
 | | The 'modernists' include Mainie Jellett - the first artist to bring cubism to Ireland - Mary Swanzy and a host of others, not least Jack B Yeats, the single most important Irish painter of the first half of the 20th century. |
 | | The inter-war landscape tradition, shaped in the main by the Northern painters such as Paul Henry, J.H. Craig and Frank McKelvey, is also well represented, as is the post-Second World War generation, of whom Louis le Brocquy, Colin Middleton, Gerard Dillon, Dan O'Neill, John Luke and William Conor are the best known. |
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