George Victor Du Noyer

George Victor Du Noyer MRIA (1817 – 3 January 1869) was an Irish painter, geologist and antiquary of Huguenot descent.

Throughout his life, he was often commissioned to draw or paint realistic depictions of locations all over Ireland (making many of his works interesting from an Irish historical perspective).

He remained there for a number of years – during a period when Ireland was being mapped by the Ordnance Survey for the first time.

[3] In April 1867, Du Noyer became the Geological Survey of Ireland's first District Surveyor and moved to Carrigfergus, County Antrim.

[3] Du Noyer's art includes works on plants, animals, fish, fossils, geology, maps, landscapes, people, country houses, historic buildings and antiquities, as well as on other subjects.

One of his best and most famous works is Killiney Head looking towards Bray, County Wicklow, 1866, a landscape in watercolour.