Talks | Portrait of Hugh Lane – Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories with Áine Andrews at Triskel Arts Centre
Tobin Street, Off South Main Street, Cork, Cork, T12WYYO
Tel: 021 427 2022
Web: https://triskelartscentre.ie/
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In each Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories lecture, Artist and art teacher Áine Andrews will focus on a particular painting to recount its history.
Week 1: Portrait of Hugh Lane, John Singer Sargent, 1906
Hugh Lane was born in Cork in 1875, but he was never to spend time there again, until, with tragic irony, he died when the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U boat in 1915 within sight of the Cork coastline.
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.