Summary: The Dublin Society
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In 1731 Thomas Prior set up the Dublin Society to “improve husbandry, manufacture and the useful arts and sciences”. By 1740 schemes to help artists had begun. It became the Royal Dublin Society in 1820.
One of the important mid 18th century landscape artists who was assisted by the Society was Gabrielle Ricciardelli (1748-1777) whose painting of Stillorgan Park and Obelisk is pictured.
In the first half of the 18th century the goldsmiths flourished and the best Irish silver dates from this period. It was also a time when Irish furniture, plasterwork and delftware developed their own distinctive styles.
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