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Achill Island |
Kildownet Castle, Achill Sound, from an exhibition catalogue entitled 'Something about Achill', 1897. |
Above: Oil 'Toilers of the Sea' exhibited at the RHA, 1902. The large fish on the shore are probably tope, a small type of shark. |
Left: Menaun Cliffs, Achill Island, showing the cathedral rocks, since much altered by storms. Watercolour over pencil from the sketchbook preserved from the artist's first visit to the island, 1873. |
Alexander Williams first visited Achill Island in 1873. He wrote back to his father to say: 'I had found a part of Ireland where there was an immense field for the activities of an artist, and that I intended to make it peculiarly my own, and devote myself to makings its wonderful scenery known.' He became more closely associated with the scenery of Achill than any other painter of his time. |
Copyright 2010 |
Copyright 2010 |
Copyright 2010 |
Copyright 2010 |