{"id":245808,"date":"2026-01-15T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245808\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:31:09","slug":"rte-hands-back-e60000-painting-to-dublin-gallery-after-ownership-claimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245808\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 hands back \u20ac60,000 painting to Dublin gallery after ownership claimed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Legal firm acting on gallery\u2019s behalf sent broadcaster an affidavit that outlined the history of the painting\u2019s ownership and how it ended up at its Montrose campus\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 'Kitchen Interior with Seated Woman' artwork by Gerard Dillon. Image: RT\u00c9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2afec803-c7ac-4567-bda7-62117db2103c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The &#8216;Kitchen Interior with Seated Woman&#8217; artwork by Gerard Dillon. Image: RT\u00c9<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">RT\u00c9 has handed back a painting worth \u20ac60,000 to a gallery in Dublin that claimed ownership of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The work by Gerard Dillon was given to Taylor Galleries last month, after checks were made by the national broadcaster about its provenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legal firm acting on gallery\u2019s behalf sent broadcaster an affidavit that outlined the history of the painting\u2019s ownership&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,5243,47232,15645,6085],"class_list":["post-245808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-burns","tag-kevin-bakhurst","tag-patrick-odonovan","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}