Hugh Lane Gallery
Dublin, Ireland
The Hugh Lane Gallery, formally the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, is a public gallery of modern and contemporary art in Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1908 through the efforts of Sir Hugh Lane and is often described as the first known public gallery of modern art in the world. Since 1933 it has occupied Charlemont House, an eighteenth-century townhouse on Parnell Square.
The gallery is known for its collection of Impressionist and Irish art and for the reconstructed studio of Francis Bacon. A long-running dispute over the "Lane Bequest" of paintings led to an arrangement under which a group of works is shared between Dublin and the National Gallery in London.