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Cork’s merchant pride is revived

William Laffan celebrates the return to Cork of two historic collections, a triumph for Ireland’s tax credit scheme.

William Laffan, Monday, 25th August 2008

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1 The new Cooper Penrose Rooms at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

 2 The Penrose Family by Robert Hunter (active 1745-1803), 1776. Oil on canvas, 150 x 179 cm. Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. Photo: Dara McGrath

3 Elizabeth Penrose in the Gardens of Woodhill by Charles Forrest (1742-1807), 1773. Chalk on paper, 59 x 44 cm. Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. Photo: Dara McGrath

4 Cooper Penrose by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), 1802. Oil on canvas, 130.8 x 97.8 cm. The Putnam Foundation, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

5 Fota House on its island demesne

6,7 Vernon Mount, Cork: the entrance front (left), c. 1900, and the garden front as it is today

 8 Landscape with a Rainbow by Thomas Roberts (1748-1778), c. 1775. Oil on canvas, 112 x 152 cm. The painting is part of the collection that will be unveiled at Fota House this year

 Notes

1 William West, A Dictionary and Picture of Cork and its Environs, Cork, 1810, cited in Peter Murray, The Cooper Penrose Collection, Cork, 2008, p. 10.

2 See Phillipe Bordes, Portraiture in Paris around 1800: Cooper Penrose by Jacques-Louis David, San Diego, 2004.

3 Richard Wood, ‘The Landscape Paintings at Fota’, Irish Arts Review, vol. I, no. 3 (1984), p. 47.

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