Artist and art teacher Áine Andrews returns with another lecture series on Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories. These can be attended as a series or individually.

A portrait of Hugh Lane by John Singer hangs today in the in the Dublin City art gallery that bears his name but for many years it had pride of place in Lane’s London home.

Lane is perhaps best known as Lady Gregory’s nephew and particularly for an unsigned codicil to his will which led to the controversy regarding Ireland’s right to the important Impressionist paintings previously owned by him. Little however is generally known of the collector’s life in London and his extraordinary successful career as a dealer of old master paintings as well as modern works of art.