Susanna Drury

Susanna Drury, later Susanna Warter (c. 1698 – c. 1770) was an Irish painter. Though little is known of her life or work, she was very influential in the development of Irish landscape painting. She is chiefly noted for her watercolor drawings of the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, which brought international attention to the site.

Life Drury was born around 1698. A work entitled ‘One Tree Hill, Greenwich Park’ (signed and dated 1733) suggests that she received instruction and lived in London around this time.

She was associated with the Dublin Society (later the Royal Dublin Society), which presented her with an award £25 in 1740 for her paintings of the Giant's Causeway. She was the first woman in Ireland to receive this award.

As a Susannah Warter is mentioned in the will of Franklin Drury (1770), it is thought that she had married by this date. Her original gouache drawings of the Giant's Causeway now hang in the Ulster Museum in Belfast.