The National Gallery of Ireland has this week acquired its first painting by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1889), 'View of Paris' (1886. Vue de Paris aux environs de Montmartre (oil on canvas, 45.6 x 38.5cm) was painted in the summer of 1886, just a few months after van Gogh moved to Paris, where his brother and art dealer, Theo, managed a gallery in the Boulevard Montmartre that dealt in Barbizan and Impressionist paintings.

The National Gallery of Ireland calendar 2007: 'A Time and a Place', has won an award for the best museum art gallery calendar in the UK's 'National Business Calendar Awards' at their prize-giving ceremony, yesterday (Thursday 18th January 2007) in the London College of Communication.

A major exhibition devoted to Irish social life over the past two centuries is open at the Millennium Wing of the National Gallery of Ireland, Sponsored by Key Capital Private and Deutsche Bank.

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) is admired as one of the great watercolourists, for his technique, imaginative response to nature and portrayal of the English and Continental landscape. His life coincided with the new status of watercolour and increase in its exponents.