Woodcuts Art and culture needed new inspiration and new practitioners after the dissolution of the monasteries. One form of art that developed at ...
Landscape Painting The military situation in Ireland gave rise to the first example of Irish landscape painting. This was the Siege and Battle of Kinsale ...
Silverware In 1637 the Dublin Goldsmiths’ Company was established by Royal Charter and it grew under the influence of Dutch craftsmen in Dublin. ...
Portraits Society was not sufficiently rich and settled until well into the 18th century for the sort of decorative art which existed in England. ...
Artists Some well known artists of the period.
Thomas Bate painted on glass and his portrait of Lord Coningsby is in the Ulster Museum, ...
The Dublin Society In 1731 Thomas Prior set up the Dublin Society to “improve husbandry, manufacture and the useful arts and sciences”. By 1740 schemes to ...
Architecture Sir William Robinson designed the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham for disabled soldiers. This was the brainchild of the Duke of Ormonde who ...
