Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915)

Collection contains the collection of letters from Hugh Lane to Sarah Ceclia Harrison among others and the Abbey Players' Textile which was used to raise fund for Lane's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art. Lane was an art dealer, collector, director of the National Gallery of Ireland and gallerist who founded the Municipal Gallery for Modern Art, now known as The Hugh Lane. Lane mainly bought and sold Old Masters, but was keenly interested in modern artists from the continent such as the Impressionists as well as promoting Irish art and artists John Singer Sargent and Augustus John. Lane was killed upon the HMS Lusitania. This resulted in a huge amount of disagreement on the rightful place of some of his collections, as well as providing the National Gallery of Ireland funds from The Lane Bequest.