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William Ashford

Ireland, 1746–1824

Portrait of William Ashford
Portrait of William Ashford

Ireland, 1746–1824

William Ashford was an Ireland British Romanticism artist. 13 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Ireland. William Ashford was born in Birmingham.

William Ashford (1746 – 17 April 1824) was an English painter who worked exclusively in Ireland, where he lived from the age of 18, having initially gone there to take up a post with the Ordnance Office. His earliest paintings were flower pieces and still lifes, but from 1772 he exhibited landscapes. He became president of the Irish Society of Artists in 1813, and was first elected President of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

His works include a set of views in and around Mount Merrion, painted for the 4th Earl FitzWilliam.

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