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William Conor RHA RUA: A Belfast Visionary William Conor OBE RHA PPRUA ROI (1881–1968) was a Belfast-born artist who captivated audiences with his poignant portrayals of ordinary Ulster life and cemented his place as one of Northern Ireland’s most celebrated visual artists. Born in 5 Fortingale Street, Belfast – a location that ran from Agnes Street, off the Shankill Road to the Old Lodge Road in north Belfast – Conor descended from a family of wrought-iron workers, shaping his formative years amidst the industrial landscape of Victorian Belfast. His artistic inclinations were recognized ear…
A chart of william conor's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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