Fourteen works of Irish art from the collection of Crawford Art Gallery are on loan to Hillsborough Castle (Historic Royal Palaces) for a period of three years.
Dating to the eighteenth-century and open to the public, Hillsborough Castle is an official British royal residence set within 100 acres of picturesque gardens in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is here that the Hillsborough Agreement was signed on 5 February 2010.
The fourteen works on loan from Crawford Art Gallery are displayed in the historic State Drawing Room. Each painting is by a twentieth-century artist with a strong connection to the north of Ireland, including Margaret Clarke, Gerard Dillon, Paul Henry, and Jack B. Yeats.
Coincidentally, the family of our namesake, William Horatio Crawford (1812-1888), was originally from nearby Crawfordsburn, County Down. Settling in Cork in the late eighteenth-century, they co-established the Beamish & Crawford brewery and became significant philanthropists and supporters of education and the arts.
Crawford Art Gallery wishes to thank David Orr, Emma Lawthers, and the teams at Hillsborough Castle and Historic Royal Palaces.
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