Art
The collection of Old Masters has its origins in the 18th century, when members of the Cobbe family collected a large number of Italian and Dutch paintings for the handsome villa near Dublin, Newbridge House. Pictures were added over the centuries, and the collection continues to grow.
-
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Self-portrait
-
Sir Thomas Lawrence
George IV (1762 – 1830) in Private Dress
-
Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
King George I in profile (1660 – 1727), the 'Coin Portrait'
-
Jusepe de Ribera
Head of a Bearded Man in a Red Cloak, a study for St James of Compostella
-
Pier Francesco Mola
Pan playing his Pipes in a wooded Clearing attended by a Dog and a Goat
-
Titian
Portrait of Alessandro Farnese, Pope Paul III (1468-1549; elected 1534)
-
Sir Anthony van Dyck
Rachel Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton (1603-40), as Fortune
-
Richard Wilson
The White Monk
-
Jean-Laurent Mosnier
Catherine Cobbe, the Hon. Mrs Henry Pelham (1761-1839), 1792
-
Gaspard Poussin
Valley Landscape with a Tempest
-
Caspar Netscher
Portrait of a Lady playing a Viola da Gamba
-
Gerrit van Honthorst
Allegory of Taste
-
Sir Peter Lely
Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709) with her Daughter, Lady Charlotte FitzRoy (1664-1718)
-
Maso da San Friano
Ottavio Farnese (1525-86), 2nd Duke of Parma and Piacenza
-
Simon Vouet
Head of a Bearded Man
-
Salomon de Bray
The Agony in the Garden
-
Master of Volterra
The Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist
-
Alessandro Allori
The Madonna and Child with SS. Catherine of Alexandria and Francis of Assisi
-
Lambert Sustris
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
-
Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld
View of the Valley of the Arno from Vallombrosa
-
Pompeo Batoni
Pompeo Batoni
-
Cornelis van Poelenburgh
Christ on the Road to Emmaus
-
John de Critz, the Elder
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573- 1624), at the age of seventeen to twenty years
-
Johannes Voorhout
A Lady in an Interior, with a Servant Washing her Foot
-
Thomas Gainsborough
Colonel Alexander Champion (d.1795)
-
Titian
Adonis Relinquishing Venus for the Hunt ('The Rokeby Venus and Adonis')
-
Guercino
Semiramis Receiving the News of the Revolt of Babylon
-
British (English) School
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)