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  • HIGHLIGHT OF IRISH 18TH CENTURY PAINTING AT SLANE AUCTION IS SOLD

    View of Dawson’s Grove, Co. Monaghan by William Ashford, painted about 1774. is estimated at 70,000-100,000.

    View of Dawson’s Grove, Co. Monaghan by William Ashford, (1746-1824) painted about 1774.

    THE highlight of Irish 18th century paintings at the James Adam auction at Slane Castle was William Ashford’s View of Dawson’s Grove, Co. Monaghan painted in 1774.  The painting, which was estimated at 70,000-100,000 failed to find a buyer at the auction. Interest remained strong afterwards.  The large and rare oil on canvas, which depicts the brick house built c1770 and seat of Thomas Dawson MP, has since been sold to an Irish collector for a hammer price of 60,000. Dawson was created Baron Dartrey (1770), Viscount Cremorne (1785) and later Baron Cremorne (1797).

    The work is typical of the Claudean style topographical views of estates or demesne paintings produced by Irish landscape painters of the eighteenth century.  In 1823, the year before he died, William Ashford was elected first President of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

    Destroyed by fire, Dawson Grove was replaced in 1846 by Dartrey, an Elizabethan Revival mansion which was demolished  around 1950.

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