William Ashford
1746 – 1824
British painter, who came from Birmingham, settled in Ireland at the age of eighteen and became in time the country's foremost landscape painter. In 1823 he was elected first president of the Royal Hibernian Academy, a considerable honour for a landscapist. Most of his works were topographical views of country seats and well-ordered parks and he seldom painted the romantic scenery favoured by a number of his Irish contemporaries.
2 artworks in collection
Works
17781779
17781779
Museum

View of Killarney
Private collection1778
A View of Killarney with the Passage to the Upper Lake
Private collection1779