Lot 85: Rev. William Louis Beaufort (1771-1849)

A view of Mallow
signed with initials, inscribed, dated and numbered 'View of the bridge Castle & Church of Mallow- Aug: 11 t h WB N o4 (upper centre) and further signed 'W Beaufort fecit [?]' (on the reverse)
pencil, black ink and grey wash, within the artist's pen and ink border
6 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. (17 x 20.7 cm.)

William Louis Beaufort was the son of the map-maker, diarist and Rector of Navan and Collon, the Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort. He was a pupil of Nicholas Pocock in Bristol and later in Dublin of a James George O'Brien. He has previously been confused with William Beauford (1735-1819) an amateur antiquarian draftsman, working in Dublin and who contributed to the Antiquities of Ireland, 1790.

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