[View of Belvoir House, near Belfast with detail of Knockbreda Church] - 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] Title as depicted by the frame of the present painting reads: 'Scene in the County of Down near Belfast Wilson'.
Keywords: Belvoir House; Architecture, Domestic; Fishing boats; Northern Ireland; Belfast (Northern Ireland); Horses; Working class; Church; Art, Irish; Painting, British; Landscape painting; 18th century