Merrion Square is a Georgian garden square on the southside of Dublin city centre.
The history of Irish art starts around 3200 BC with Neolithic stone carvings at the Newgrange megalithic tomb, part of the Brú na Bóinne complex which still stands today, County Meath. In early-Bronze Age Ireland there is evidence of Beaker culture and a widespread metalworking. Trade-links with Britain and Northern Europe introduced La Tène culture and Celtic art to Ireland by about 300 BC, but while these styles later changed or disappeared under the Roman subjugation, Ireland was left alone to develop Celtic designs: notably Celtic crosses, spiral designs, and the intricate interlaced patterns of Celtic knotwork.
Paul Henry was an Irish artist noted for depicting the West of Ireland landscape in a spare Post-Impressionist style.
The year 2004 in art involved some significant events and new art works.
Francis Wheatley RA was an English portrait and landscape painter.
Andrew Nicholl RHA was an Irish painter. He was a founding member of the Belfast Association of Artists and in 1847 was elected as an associate member to the Royal Hibernian Academy, becoming a full member in 1860.
William Crampton Gore RHA (1871–1946) was an Irish painter.
Mildred Anne Butler was an Irish artist, who worked in watercolour and oil of landscape, genre and animal subjects. Butler was born and spent most of her life in Kilmurry, Thomastown, County Kilkenny and was associated with the Newlyn School of painters.
Henry Allan was an Irish painter.
William Ashford (1746–1824) 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.
William Humphrys was an engraver of pictures, book illustrations and postage stamps.
Robert Hunter was a portrait-painter and a native of Ulster. He studied under the elder Pope, and had a considerable practice in Dublin in the middle of the eighteenth century. He modelled his tone of colouring on the painting of old masters.
John Comerford was an Irish miniature painter active in Kilkenny and Dublin. He exhibited in London at the Royal Academy in 1804 and 1809.
Cecilia Margaret Nairnnée Cecilia Margaret Campbell was an Irish wax modeller and painter. She specialised in landscape watercolour paintings and modelling flowers. Nairn's paintings were exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1826 to 1851.
Samuel Frederick Brocas was an Irish artist best known for his series depicting Dublin known as the Select views of Dublin.
William Brocas was an Irish artist known for his portraits and figurative drawings.
Henry Brocas was an Irish artist known for his landscapes and engravings.
Michael Angelo Hayes, was an Irish watercolourist who specialised in painting horses and military subjects.
Denis Brownell Murphy was an Irish miniature-painter.
