Gallery marks 170th year with plans for scientific laboratory to conserve collection, including Jack B Yeats paintings
The gallery has acquired Rembrandt's Landscape with Cottages and a Hay Barn , which has not gone on public display due to light sensitivity. Photograph: Roy Hewson/National Gallery of Ireland Collection
The National Gallery Act was passed on August 10th, 1854 and the gallery opened 10 years later with 100 works of art. It now has 17,000. The gallery, which attracted more than one million visitors last year, intends to create the first scientific laboratory dedicated to the appreciation and the conservation of its collection, starting with Jack B Yeats paintings.
To mark its 170th anniversary, the gallery announced the acquisition of a number of new works including a Rembrandt print, Landscape with Cottages and a Hay Barn, which has not gone on public display because of light sensitivity. It is the first print of its kind acquired by the gallery.
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