Italian Paintings
This is a collection of about twenty-five works ranging from the 1500s to the 1700s.The most notable 1600s pieces are An Allegory of Fortune by Lorenzo Lippi and St Cecilia crowned by an Angel by Giovanni Romanelli.A fine companion pair of genre scenes A Boy with a basket of Vegetables and A Boy ...

Dutch Paintings
There are fourteen Dutch works, of which the most important are two acquired since 1998: A View of the Palace of the Dukes of Brabant, Brussels (poss. 1660s) by Jan van der Heyden, a highly detailed townscape and River Landscape with Figures in Boats and Church in the Distance (1664) by Salomon v...
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Pottery and Porcelain (Ceramics)
The main strengths of the ceramics collection lie in British and European historic ceramics, Irish ceramics, Oriental and the contemporary. The British and European historic collection comprehensively documents the development of pottery and porcelain from the late 1600s. The Irish collection, wh...
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Glass Collection
The glass collection consists of mainly two areas: Historic glass collection Contemporary glass collectionThe historic collection is made up of mainly English and Irish 18th and 19th century glass. Highlights of the collection include a group of over 350 drinking glasses showing their d...
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Flemish Paintings
Jordaens is one of the best-known figures of the Antwerp school of painting in the 1600s.During his highly successful career, his output included religious, mythological and allegorical subjects, many of which were produced with the help of his large workshop of apprentices and assistants.In 1634...
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17th, 18th & 19th Century British Masters
The Ulster Museum collection has pieces from notable artists including Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Thomas Lawrence. This section highlights some of their most famous work.
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Furniture and Wood
The small, but significant furniture and wood collection comprises mainly Irish material. The collection contains some very fine and important examples of Irish cabinet-making of the 1700s. As well as carved early mahogany pieces there are later 18th century examples of neo-classical style furnit...
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Irish Paintings from 17th Century
Included in the Ulster Museum fine art collection is many great works from Irish painters. In this section you will see details of Thomas Bate, William Ashford, James Arthur O'Connor and Frank O'Meara. 
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Silver & Metal Work
The historic Irish silver collection has few equals. It shows the skills of the Irish makers and the taste and influence of the aristocratic patron on the styles and fashions of the times.The earliest piece, the Loftus Cup is engraved with the words 'This silver cuppe was made of the great seal...
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Costume & Fashion
The Ulster Museum's collection of fashionable dress is over twenty-five years old, recreated after the former collection was destroyed in the fire following the bombing of the building in which it was then stored.We have taken the opportunity to build a distinctive new collection, collecting main...
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Textiles
Our textiles collection ranges in date from the eighteenth century to the present day. It is a new collection, since our former collection, apart from the eighteenth century tapestries and the 'Lennox Quilt', was destroyed in the fire following the 1976 bombing of the house in which it was then s...
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