William Ashford, English, Irish, 1746 to 1824, oil painting on panel board, Ireland, depicting an estate landscape view, 1785. Probably signed lower right. Framed. A paper label showing detailed information about the artwork, on the backside. William Ashford is known for Landscape painting, estates and parklands. Born in Birmingham, England William Ashford was an English artist who painted exclusively in Ireland, becoming along with George Barret, Senior and Thomas Roberts, one of the leading painters of the Irish landscape. His uncomplicated topographical compositions, complete with their well ordered estates and parklands, were designed to satisfy the concerns of his landowning clientele and thus lacked the romance and atmosphere achieved by other leading Irish landscape artists. One of a kind artwork.