Robert Welch (photographer)
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Robert Welch, full name Robert John Welch, son of an accomplished Scottish amateur photographer, was born in Strabane in 1859. He was an Irish photographer interested in natural history and, especially, Mollusca.
He specialised in outdoors photography and took thousands of photographs of the towns and scenery of Ireland. He was a skilled craftsman and his studies of Ireland and Irish life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are today justly famous. A permanent exhibition at the Ulster Museum features twenty enlarged photographs of his works on the subject of travel and transport.
