Irish Artists: 18th Century
List of Famous Painters & Sculptors of Ireland, Born in the Eighteenth Century, or Before.
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Landscape with Watermill.
By George Barret Senior, one of the
great Irish landscape artists.

18th Century Artists

Alphabetical list of Irish artists, born before 1800.
Ashford, William (Topographical Landscapes) (c.1746-1824);
Barret, George Junior (Watercolour Landscape Painter), (1767-1842);
Barret, George Senior (Landscape Painter), (1732-1784);
Barry, James (Neo-Classical History Painter), (1741-1806);
Beaufort, William Louis (Landscape Artist), (1771-1849);
Brocas, Henry (Engraver and Landscape Artist), (1798-1873);
Brocas, Samuel Frederick (Noted for his views of Dublin) (1792-1847);
Butts, John (River & Woodland Landscape Scenes) (c.1728-1764);
Campbell, John Henry (Landscape Painter), (1757-1828);

The Limerick Piper (1844).
By Joseph Patrick Haverty, one of
the early Irish genre painters.

Carver, Robert (Landscape Art), (c.1730–1791);
Cregan, Martin (Portrait Painter), (1788-1870);
Drury, Susanna (Watercolor Drawings of Giant's Causeway) (c.1698–c.1770);
Fagan, Robert (Portraiture), (c.1761–1816);
Fisher, Jonathan (Landscape Painter and Engraver), (c.1740-1809);
Frye, Thomas (Engraver, Portraitist in Oils & Pastels), (1710-1762);
Garvey, Edmond (Illustrator, Watercolour Landscapes), (1740–1813);
Grogan, Nathaniel (The Elder) (Illustrator, Landscapes), (1740–1807);
Hamilton, Hugh Douglas (Portraitist), (c.1724–1808);
Haverty, Joseph Patrick (Illustrator, Portraits, Genres), (1794–1864);
Hickey, Thomas (Portrait Painter) (c.1741-1824);
Hone, Horace (Watercolourist and Miniature Painter), (1756-1825);
Hone, Nathaniel The Elder (Portraits & Miniatures), (1718–1784);
Hussey, Philip (Portraiture & Interiors) (c.1713-83);
Ingham, Charles Cromwell (Portrait Artist), (1797-1863);
Jervas, Charles (Portrait Painter), (c.1675-1739);
Latham, James (Portraiture) (c.1696-1747);
Malton James (Architectural Draughtsman, Engraver) (c.1760-1803);
MacDowell Patrick (Belfast Sculptor) (1799-1870);
Morphy, Garret (Landscapes and Genre Scenes), (c.1650–1716);

Portrait of Sarah Churchill, Duchess
of Marlborough. By Charles Jervas,
one of the earliest Irish portrait artists.

Mullins George (Claudean/Italianate landscapes) (fl.1763-75);
Mulready, William (Rural Artist and Genre Painter), (1786-1863);
O'Connor, James Arthur (Landscape Artist, Illustrator), (1792-1841);
Petrie, George (Painter, Antiquary and Archaeologist), (1790–1866);
Roberts, Thomas (Landscape Painter), (1748-1778);
Roberts, Thomas Sautelle (Romantic landscapes) (c.1760-1826);
Sadler, William II (Landscape Artist and Illustrator), (c.1782–1839);
Shee, Martin Archer, SIR (Portraits), (1769–1850);
Stuart, Gilbert (Portraits), (1755-1828);
Wall, William Guy (Watercolour Landscape Artist), (1792-1864);
Walmsley, Thomas (Landscape Painter), (1763-1806);
West, Robert Lucius (Portrait and Subject Painter), (1774-1850).

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