#MaritimeART – The Port of Cork Maritime Collection is to be hosted by the Bantry Bay Port Company writes the West Cork Times.

The exhibition of maritime themed paintings and models is now open at Bantry House, West Cork.

Visitors to the exhibition (which runs until 28th June), will showcase a selection of the Port's historic maritime art pieces dating back from the 1800s.

Highlights of the collection include a number of paintings by marine artist George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson and Robert Lowe Stopford who is known for his series of panoramic views of Queenstown.

This exhibition offers the public a chance to view this one of a kind collection of paintings which is usually housed in the Port's headquarters in Custom House.

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