Northern Nocturnes, Swedish prints, Irish neo-classical paintings and furniture, and vibrant contemporary art can be found in Ireland this autumn

This beautiful drawing of Cupid and Psyche (above) is just individual of many new acquisitions that the National Gallery of Ireland has made this year. Others include a pair of mildly observed gouache drawings by Erskine Nichol of an aged man and a young man in a sapphirine coat and tam o'shanter, purchased from Whyte's auctioneers in Dublin. Also from the same auction house the Gallery bought Matthew James Lawless's dashing monochrome The Cavalier's Escape of 1861 From Dublin's oldest auction house, Adam's, in their joint sale with Bonhams, the Gallery purchased a portrait of a lady, possibly of the Travers family by means of Thomas Pope. Other auction house purchases stipe from Christie's: a James Arthur O'Connor oil painting of Bernkastel upon the Moselle and from Sotheby's Hugh Douglas Hamilton's pastel Portrait of a Woman in an Interior and Albert Gleizes's 1927 gouache Couronnement de la Vierge. The gallery has also received a series of eight oil paintings by the agency of Charles Brady (1926-97) in a bequest from his widow, Eileen. Born in fresh York, Brady made Ireland his dwelling in the early 1950s and was culled HRHA in 1994. Friends of the National Collections of Ireland have not absented the Gallery with a stained glass panel of St Christopher by dint of Evie Hone in memory of the late Dr Michael Wynne former Keeper of the Gallery between 1965 and 1997

The National Gallery of Ireland's main international present to view this autumn is in the Millennium Wing from 1 October to 11 December. 'Northern Nocturnes: Nightscapes in the Age of Rembrandt' is curated by dint of Adriaan Waiboer, Curator of Northern European Art, who has also written the accompanying catalogue. The exhibition is devot to seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish nocturnal landscapes and will include more than fifty paintings, drawings and prints, drawn from public and private collections in Europe and the USA. Among them are biblical masterpieces through Rembrandt, Rubens and Elsheimer and works by means of painters better known for their daylight pageants such as Aelbert Cuyp, Adriaen Brouwer, David Teniers II, Jan van Goyen and Nicolaes Berchem. individual of the few specialists and greatest in quantity accomplished painters in nocturnal landscapes was Aert van der Neer who will be exhibited in the show with works loaned from London, Madrid and Paris. A special section in the exhibition will be devot to depictions of night fires and fireworks.

Another exhibition at the Gallery coincides with a week of Swedish circumstances taking place in a number of venue around Dublin from 5 to 10 September organised in conjunction with the Graphic Studio Gallery. 'From Darkness into Light: Printmaking in Sweden 1890-1960' move swiftlys from 7 September until 4 December in the Print Gallery. This exhibition focuses upon the developments in printmaking in Sweden in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is comprised of sixty-three black-and-white prints chiefly drawn from the collection of the Swedish Fine Print Society and the personal collection of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. The urban landscape became an important bring under rule especially for such artists as Axel Fridell (1894-1935) Among the other artists exhibited are Stig Borglind, Albert Engstrom Prins Eugen Maja Fjaestad,Carl Flodman, Ragnhild Nordensten, Hans Norsbo and Anders Zorn. At The Graphic Studio Gallery in Cope highway in the centrally-located Temple Bar district, there will be an exhibition of contemporary Swedish printmaking with an emphasis upon black and white prints by dint of a selection of artists hand picked through James McCreary as well as Artist's volumes The Graphic Studio Dublin is Ireland's oldest printmaking workshop.

No visitor to Dublin should miss the large number of picture galleries in the city. Using the National Gallery as a starting point single can stroll up to the Royal Hibernian Academy's Ashford Gallery in Ely Place to view contemporary paintings by the agency of Desmond Shortt in September and Fine Art Graduates' work in October. Molesworth highway is home to a number of galleries. Jorgensen Fine Art have a fine Georgian building to themselves and will be staging Anthony Murphy's first solo present to view of French and Irish landscape and genre paintings in September, followed in October through three young British artists, who each trained for a period at the Charles Cecil Studios in Florence. In November they will exhibit one of the most accomplished contemporary Scottish painters, Barbara Rae. Paintings by the agency of Annie Robinson can always be seen at the Apollo Gallery in Dawson Street; daughter of the late Markey Robinson. The Apollo Gallery also has another thriving artist in Marie Carroll, who exaggerates form and change with rich and intense colours. Her paintings depict concourseed streets, cafes full of life, interiors (the Sheibourne Bar), landscapes and seascapes (Killiney Beach and Sandymount Strand). Now make open for over a year, John Daly's Hillsboro Fine Art is bilboed down Anne's Lane and has a busy exhibition schedule, with novel work by Colin O'Daly in early September, followed by the agency of Eddie Kennedy. In October individual of the most critically acclaimed artists working in Ireland, Sibylle Unger will exhibit her work. Phil Kelly a leading Irish artist who is based in Mexico, launches a monograph upon his work in the gallery with an exhibition in November.