Castle Ward, County Down - Fisher, Jonathan (Irish painter, active 1763, died 1809) (My University, 2008)
Fisher was a painter and engraver in Ireland, working after the Dutch and Italian landscape painting tradition. He is best known by engravings after his designs, of which a large number were produced during his career.[notes from Irish Paintings in the `National Gallery of Ireland?, 2001]The present painting depicts Castle Ward in the distance, an 18th century dwelling famed for its mix of Classical and Gothic architecture.
Keywords: Architecture, Domestic; Ruins; Tower houses; Ships; Northern Ireland; Landscape; Animals; Lakes; Art, Irish; Painting, Irish; Landscape painting