Collection: Charles Collins

Dublin-born and largely forgotten for two centuries — until the Tate Gallery bought his work and the art world had to reckon with him.

Charles Collins (c.1680–1744) was one of the most accomplished Irish painters of the 18th century — a master of animal and still-life painting working in the great Dutch tradition of Jan Weenix and Frans Snyders, whose meticulous observation and quiet command of paint put him alongside the finest natural history painters of his era. Horace Walpole noted his virtuosity. His work hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland and the Tate. A painter whose rediscovery is long overdue.

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