€12k Cowen portrait to go on public display 10 years after it was commissioned

€12k portrait of former taoiseach will be part of RHA exhibition

Brian Cowen at an EU summit in 2011. Picture: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images

A portrait of former taoiseach Brian Cowen is to go on display from Monday, more than a decade after it was firstcommissioned.

The portrait, by artist Blaise Smith, will go on display to the public as part of the Royal Hibernian Academy's (RHA) 192nd annual exhibition, which runs until July.