Samuel McCloy

Samuel McCloy (13 March 1831 – 4 October 1904) was an Irish artist who trained at Belfast School of Design and later at Somerset House.

He exhibited widely in group shows across the British Isles and was known for his watercolours, genre paintings, still-life and landscapes.

[3] McCloy studied at the School of Design in Belfast from 1850 to 1851 whilst serving an apprenticeship in engraving, with J and T Smyth.

[8] In 1880 he showed at Rodman and Company in London where the writer in the Belfast Telegraph indicates that McCloy was becoming a popular artist and was receiving extensive patronage.

[18][19] The Lisburn Museum in his hometown, offered a belated retrospective of his work in 1981 to mark the one-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth.