Edouard Manet, Music in the Tuileries Gardens (1862) © The National Gallery, London
An agreement signed “in a spirit of collegiality between the National Gallery in London and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, marks a new partnership approach to the long-running and bitter dispute between the two countries, over the bequest of masterpieces of late 19th-century French art by the art collector and dealer Hugh Lane.
In May 1915 Lane, returning from a work trip to New York, was among 1,198 people who died when a German U-boat sank the Lusitania liner. He left a will bequeathing his Modern paintings including works by Renoir, Manet, Monet, Degas, Morisot and Vuillard, to the National Gallery in London. He also left a signed but unwitnessed codicil in his desk, changing his will and leaving the paintings to Dublin. London kept the pictures, and the ensuing bitter row rumbled on for decades, involving successive British and Irish prime ministers, arts ministe
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