Pictures of Hay 4
Joseph Murray Ince (1806-1859)
The fine painting reproduced here is Hay and the Brecon Beacons by Joseph Murray Ince, who spent many years of his life in Presteigne, the Welsh border town to the north of Hay.
National Library
of Wales
Though born in London in
1806, Ince moved to Wales in his early childhood and went to
school in Presteigne.
The artist spent some time in London and returned to Presteigne in 1830. He produced a number of landscapes of the attractive countryside of mid-Wales and the Wye Valley in the 1830s.
His house in Broad Street, Presteigne carries a blue plaque in his memory. See also the page on J.M.Ince in the Presteigne section of this website.
