High Street, Belfast This fine 1786 watercolour by John Nixon, an Irish merchant and keen amateur artist, uses fashionable ladies and gentlemen as its ...
O’Connell’s Monster Meetings The great public meetings addressed by Daniel O’Connell in the 1840s were a very popular subject for Irish artists. This is Joseph ...
Turf Boat on the Shannon This early 19th century oil painting is very simple in style. It shows a turf boat working on the Shannon at Limerick.
A Munster Repeal Meeting This contemporary drawing of the famous 1843 Repeal Meeting at Tara emphasises Irish symbols, especially the harp.
Bathing Boxes at Ringsend This Thomas Snagg oil painting shows bathing boxes close to the seashore at Ringsend near Dublin. Dogs feature in many contemporary ...
Wooded Glen with Angler This mid 19th century painting by the Irish landscape artist, James Arthur O’Connor, shows the wild scenery in a remote Irish glen. ...
Brown Linen Market This fine engraving of a drawing by William Hincks in 1783 depicts the Brown linen market at Banbridge. A number of merchants are ...
Andrew Nicholl McArt's Fort by Andrew Nicholl, 1830, watercolour. The second portrait is of Nicholl at work. During this period he was one of ...
McArt’s Fort Andrew Nicholl’s painting of McArt’s Fort was produced in 1830. Nicholl was a prolific artist and he liked to paint watercolours of the ...
Women Cottage Workers This 1840s watercolour by William Kirwin records the scene in a typical cottage in rural Ulster where women were engaged in the domestic ...
