The Misses Pollocks

The English-born artist Thomas Robinson (1756-1810) resided in Lisburn where he painted portraits of several of the town's leading citizens as well as his best known painting, the Battle of Ballynahinch, 1798. Note the Regency style dress of the two sisters, Frances and Mary Anne Pollock. The girls' mother Frances Jones, from outside Lisburn, married Joseph Pollock of Rostrevor. The Pollock family had interests in the linen industry, and had a large bleach green at Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, which was eventually bought over by the Richardson family, who set up the Bessbrook Spinning Co..