George Trobridge was an English artist whose landscapes and sea paintings received considerable acclaim throughout England. He was also principal of the Belfast School of Art in northern Ireland, a position he held for twenty-one years, and the father of noted architect Ernest George Trobridge
He exhibited in England, at the Belfast Ramblers' Sketching Club and in Dublin. He published The Principles of Perspective as Applied to Model Drawing and Sketching from Nature (1884) and Swedenborg, His Life, Teachings and Influence, and The Foundations of Philosophy (1904).