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Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Beginnings in the Sixteenth and early Seventeenth Centuries -- Ireland's Restoration Period -- Portrait painting in the first half of the Eighteenth Century -- Patronage and dealing from the Eighteenth Century -- Landscape in the first half of the Eighteenth Century -- The Dublin Society Schools and their influence -- Portraiture and subject painting in the second half of the Eighteenth Century -- The genius of James Barry -- Mid-Eighteenth Century painters and the Irish in Rome -- Landscapes, 1760-1826 -- Visitors, decorators, and history painters -- After the Act of Union -- Genre, landscape and seascape in the first half of the Nineteenth Century -- Petrie, Danby, and O'Connor -- Portraits and subject pictures in the Nineteenth Century -- The influence of Continental Europe and England in the late Nineteenth Century -- Orpen and his shadow -- The advent of Modernism. ISBN 9780300097658