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Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915)
When the Lusitania was torpedoed in World War One, it spelled the end for one of the most intriguing figures in modern Irish history and his dream to build a modern art gallery that spanned the River Liffey in Dublin City. In the art world, Hugh Lane’s opinion was considered so important that paintings reputedly went up in value if he so much as looked at them. His legacy lives on through his bequest of 39 great Impressionist paintings, including works by Monet, Renoir and Manet, which were unwittingly left to the National Gallery, London but now shared with the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.