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==1550 to 1700== [[File:Hugh Douglas Hamilton - Cupid and Psyche in the nuptial bower.jpg|thumbnail|right|''Cupid and Psyche in the nuptial bower'' by [[Hugh Douglas Hamilton]], who trained in Dublin under [[Robert West (painter)|Robert West]]. Oil, 1792β93.]] [[File:Walter Osborne In a Dublin Park, Light and Shade.jpg|thumb|240px|[[Walter Osborne]], ''[[In a Dublin Park, Light and Shade]]'', 1895]] Wars, rebellions, and unrest, concentrated in the late 16th century, from 1641 to the 1650s, and after 1688, greatly hindered the developments of the arts, and the processes exemplified by the [[Flight of the Earls]] in 1607 largely brought to an end the position of the old elites of [[Gaelic Ireland]], who had been a mainstay of patronage for artists. The visual arts were slow to develop in [[Early Modern Ireland]], due to political disruption, and the lack of patrons in either government, the church, and wealthy resident landowners or business class interested in art. Yet beginning in the late 17th century, Irish painting began to develop, especially in portraiture and [[landscape painting]]. The English portraitist [[James Gandy]] was brought to Ireland after his patron [[James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond]] became Lord Deputy in 1661, and remained until his death in 1689. By the 1680s the [[Dutch Golden Age painter]] [[Ludowyk Smits]] was able to base himself in Ireland, mainly painting portraits. Irish painters typically looked outside Ireland for influence, training and clients who were wealthy enough to afford the purchase of art.
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