Anglers by a River

William Ashford, Anglers by a River

Right from the start, the RDS has championed the development of the arts and artists in Ireland. The Society founded its own drawing schools in the 1740s, and it awarded prizes in a competition open to all artists, be they amateur or expert. One such prizewinning painter was William Ashford. Idly chatting in his idyllic landscape are two anglers - carping, perhaps, about the lack of carp. The fish equally idle that day, evidently!