Born in Holywood, County Down, Tate Adams was born William Allen Adams. Known for his wood engravings at the RHA, he held his first joint exhibition organized by the Encouragement of Music and Arts (CEMA) with Gerard Dillon in 1949. Several works in the exhibition depict scenes from Ceylon from a s...

Douglas Alexander grew up in a wealthy household in Limerick. He began his working life as an apprentice in the wholesale merchants, J&G Boyd, before later moving to Dublin where he was employed full time as a lithographic by James Walker & Co. Printers. Alexander is best known for his high...

Henry Allan studied art in Belfast and Dublin before enrolling at the age of eighteen in the Academie Royaume in Antwerp, where Vincent van Gogh had briefly been a student. In the late nineteenth century an artist's education was not considered complete if they had not spent time studying in Paris o...

Arthur Armstrong was a landscape and still life painter. Born on 12 January 1924 at Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, Arthur Charlton Armstrong was the son of a house painter, Charlton Armstrong, and remembered his father painting pictures with paint remnants from various jobs. With his family, Armstrong ...

Born in Queenstown, now Cobh, Co. Cork, George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson trained as a carpenter, later becoming Captain Atkinson as Government Surveyor of Shipping and Emigrants. When he began painting, it is no surprise that marine scenes were his subject of choice, and although self taught he exhi...