Gallery offers online window onto restoration of classic image

GET lost in one of Ireland’s best known paintings by looking up the National Gallery’s online project, which allows you to follow the restoration of Daniel Maclise’s The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife.

Gallery offers online window onto restoration of classic image
Wed, 21 Sep, 2011 - 01:00
Claire O'Sullivan

This 19th-century painting by the Corkman depicts the 1170 marriage of Princess Aoife, the daughter of Dermot MacMurrough, to the Norman leader Strongbow, following the capture of Waterford.

The National Gallery has been the proud owner of the painting since 1879.

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