the public next week.

The so-called Zoffany Painting will be on view as part of an exhibition which opens next Wednesday (November 7) at the National Museum of Ireland, Country Life, Castlebar.

The exhibition entitled No Ordinary Family: Zoffany’s Portrait of the Fitzgeralds of Turlough, 1764 will run until April of next year.

It is nearly 250 years since the portrait of George Fitzgerald with his sons George and Charles, hung in Turlough Park House, the estate of the Fitzgerald family.

The valuable oil painting is on loan from the National Gallery of Ireland.

George Robert, son of George Fitzgerald was famous for his brave and reckless horsemanship. He later became known as  ‘Fighting Fitzgerald’.

He was a renowned duelist and was eventually hanged for murder in Castlebar, in 1786.

A pair of duelling pistols will be displayed in the Landlord’s Library in Turlough Park House during the exhibition.

These are said to be of the type that would have been used by George Robert Fitzgerald.