William Nicholl

William Nicholl painted watercolours of Irish streets and lanes in the early 1800s, leaving us a quiet view of Belfast’s edges in A Roadside Study, Belfast. His brush tracked cart ruts, grass tufts, and the sweep of sky above a single house, all softened by the grain of paper. Step closer to this sheet and you’ll see the way he balanced sunlit brick against shadowed thatch without naming a soul, just the evidence of a walk turned into paper.

After this tile, tap A Roadside Study, Belfast to inspect the tiny figures and crooked gable that make the scene feel lived-in.