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William Ashford

William Ashford (1746 - 1824) was active/lived in United Kingdom, Ireland, England.  William Ashford is known for Landscape painting, estates and parklands.

William Ashford (c.1746-1824)

Born in Birmingham, England William Ashford was an English artist who painted exclusively in Ireland, becoming - along with George Barret, Senior (1732-84) and Thomas Roberts (1748-1778) - one of the leading painters of the Irish landscape.  His uncomplicated topographical compositions, complete with their well-ordered estates and parklands, were designed to satisfy the concerns of his landowning clientele and thus lacked the romance and atmosphere achieved by other leading Irish landscape artists.

Ashford first came to Ireland in 1764, to take up a position in the Ordnance Office in Dublin. He began exhibiting a number of flower-paintings and still lifes of fruit and dead game, with the Society of Artists in William Street, progressing thereafter to classical landscapes until the Society disbanded in 1780. No art shows were staged in Dublin until 1800 when a new Irish Artists Society was formed, so meantime Ashford exhibited in London a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2366 characters.]  Artist bio

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A Pair of Views of Dublin Bay, Looking North and South

William Ashford

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WILLIAM ASHFORD , 177*

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VIEW OF KILARNEY WITH THE PASSAGE TO THE UPPER LAKE , 1778

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A view of the bridge at Charleville Castle, Tullamore, Co. Offaly , 1801

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The River Clodiagh at Charleville Forest, Co. Offaly, with the castellated farm buildings and gothic dairy in the distance , 1801

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A Weir on the River Clodiagh at Charleville Forest, Co. Offaly, Ireland , 1801

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