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William Ashford PRHA
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William Ashford's role in Irish landscape painting cannot be understated; he enjoyed a reputation as the premier landscapist of his day, rivalled only by the painter Thomas Roberts. Born in Birmingham in 1746, he moved to Ireland in 1764 having been appointed to the Ordnance Office in Dublin Castle. Within three years he was exhibiting with the Society of Artists in William Street, continuing to do so until 1780. After short period in London (1789-1790) he exhibited at various venues in Dublin and held a successful one-man show in the Dublin Society's premises in February 1819. He produced a large body of work, much of which was subsequently engraved for books and periodicals. Elected President of the Irish Society of Artists in 1813, he was also a founding member of the RHA and in 1823 became its first elected President. |
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