The Bateson Family Family portraits were very popular with the wealthy commercial classes. This 1762 work shows the Bateson family. Bateson had made his ...
Famine Death This 1847 illustration records the isolation felt by many families in rural areas. A corpse is being lifted into a coffin on the cart. ...
Francis Johnston and Family This family portrait was painted later in the period. The subject was Francis Johnston, his wife and their two nephews, and the artist, ...
Famine Fever This contemporary lithograph shows a mixed group of workhouse inmates suffering from famine fever. The Famine theme was a regular ...
Ascendancy Life This family portrait was painted around 1770. The wealthy members of the Irish Ascendancy liked to have these portraits. The ornate ...
The Irish Famine Many artists focused on the fate of mothers and their children. This G F Watts painting shows a dying baby in the arms of a desperate ...
Parliament House, Dublin The old Irish Parliament building in Dublin’s College Green, now the Bank of Ireland, is one of Dublin’s finest Georgian buildings. ...
Emigrant ship, Belfast This 1852 painting by James Glen Wilson records a familiar scene in Irish ports during these years. Crowded ships like this carried ...
Customs House, Dublin Another fine piece of Georgian architecture in Dublin was the Customs House. Like a number of other important Dublin buildings, it ...
An Emigrant Ship in Dublin Bay Edwin Hayes’s fine 1853 oil painting shows an emigrant ship in Dublin bay in the evening sunset. The careful choice of colour and the ...
