George Cairncross, Herald Painter

Herald Painter

From A Dictionary of Irish Artists 1913

Index of Irish Herald Painters

Was brother of the foregoing Alexander Cairncross. He was apprenticed to Alexander Gordon, painter, in 1745; was admitted to the Freedom of the Guild of St. Luke in 1755, and became Warden in 1763. He lived in Liffey Street, and from 1769 in Cole's Lane. He died after 1783.

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