Emer McGarry reviews works in an exhibition at The Model in Sligo featuring newly discovered and restored watercolours by Jack Butler Yeats, and discusses the background to their creation
I n 2017, The Model, home of the Niland Collection, was gifted a body of work by the Yeats family, donated by a private collector. Among these works was a wooden linen chest lined with nineteen sea-themed watercolour drawings by Irish artist Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957). Because of their placement on wood and metal, the drawings had deteriorated somewhat over the hundred years since their creation. The Model secured funds from the Heritage Council for their restoration and, in a process led by Patrick McBride of the Paper Conservation Studio, each individual work was carefully removed and restored.
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Julian Walton and William Fraher explore the magnificent Curraghmore House in County Waterford, where, three hundred years ago, the union of two families produced the most powerful dynasty in late Georgian Ireland
