Herbert Pugh ( fl. 1758–1788) was an Irish landscape-painter.

Life

Pugh was born in Ireland, and came to London about 1758. He lived in the Piazza, Covent Garden. He drank to the detriment of his health, and died soon after 1788.

Works

Pugh was a contributor to the first exhibition of the Society of Artists in 1760, sending a ‘Landscape with Cattle.’ In 1765 he gained a premium at the

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, and in 1766 was a member of the newly incorporated Society of Artists. He continued exhibiting with them up to 1776. He tried his hand at some pictures in the manner of

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, but without great success, although some of these pictures were engraved. A large landscape by Pugh went to the Lock Hospital. Two views of London Bridge by him were in the Century of British Art exhibition at the

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in 1888.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pugh, Herbert Irish landscape painters 18th-century Irish painters Irish male painters Irish emigrants to Great Britain