National Gallery of Ireland still credits paedophile surgeon Michael Shine for €250,000, artwork Disgraced Michael Shine donated An Ejected Family by Scottish artists Erskine Nicol in 1992, The artwork was displayed in the Dublin museum until 2011, after which it was put in temporary storage“It’s a popular one and I’m sure it will be up again in not too long a time.”The painting was removed two years after Shine was struck off the medical register.

Erskine Nicol, Scottish, 1825-1904

Title: An Ejected Family

Date: 1853

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

50 x 82 cm

Signed: lower right: ENicol 1853

Credit Line: Presented, Mr Michael Shine, 1992

Object Number: NGI.4577

But the description for it on the website says it was “presented, Mr Michael Shine, 1992”.

The National Gallery said in a statement: “An Ejected Family by Erskine Nicol was removed from display in 2011, when the collection was decanted [temporarily taken down] to facilitate the refurbishment of the Dargan and Milltown Wings…

“The display of the collection is under constant review.”

The National Gallery of Ireland is in possession of a painting donated by sex predator Michael Shine and still credits him for the gift.

The Famine painting, which is priced at €250,000, was given to the Gallery by Shine who received a four-year jail sentence last month for sexually assaulting seven boys over over three decades.