14-483: Mulready is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Augustus Edwin Mulready (1844–1904), British painter David Mulready (born 1947), Australian Anglican bishop Glen Mulready (born 1960), American politician Sally Mulready , Irish public official William Mulready (1786–1863), Irish painter [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
28-513: A philanthropic role in Cranbrook Their works were mainly romanticized views of the countryside and sentimental images of bucolic simplicity which proved extremely saleable to the industrialists of the Midlands . "The Cranbrook style was enormously popular, and had many imitators," including William Henry Knight ; its artists continued a tradition "of small old-masterish pictures until the end of
42-460: A very successful and popular genre painter and book illustrator. His grandmother Elizabeth Mulready, née Varley (1784–1864) was a landscape painter, and the sister of artist John Varley (1778–1842). Mulready was born in Kensal Green , London, the third of five children of William Mulready Junior (1805–1878, portrait painter and picture restorer), and his wife Sara (1818–1874). He studied art at
56-496: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Augustus Edwin Mulready Augustus Edwin Mulready (23 February 1844 – 15 March 1904 ) was an English genre painter whose work often depicted London street scenes with urchins and flower-sellers . Mulready came from a family of artists. His grandfather, William Mulready (1786–1863), came to London from Ireland and established himself as
70-594: Is known about Mulready's private life. According to the England and Wales marriage index, Mulready married Maria in 1874 - the couple had two children: Claude Augustus, born in 1875 and Eleanor Julia, born in 1877. Cranbrook Colony The Cranbrook Colony was a group of artists who settled in Cranbrook, Kent from 1853 onwards and were inspired by seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painters. They have been referred to as 'genre' painters as they tended to paint scenes of
84-625: Is the inclusion of street posters in the background, the text of which creates additional social and political context for the depicted scene. In this sense, his artworks correspond with problems raised by social activists of the era. Charles Dickens novels also influenced Mulready's paintings, such as “Hard Times” (1877, private collection). He was even described as 'a sentimental social realist'. Mulready also occasionally experimented with landscape painting: In 1880, at Christie's, three of his small landscapes were sold - The Backward Course : A Sunny Day , A Rainy Afternoon and A Wintry Ave Little
98-608: The South Kensington Schools and as early as 1861, at the age of 17, was already promoting himself as a figure artist. In the same year he entered the Royal Academy , London on the recommendation of John Callcott Horsley who took him under his patronage. In 1903, reflecting on Horsley's death, Mulready wrote that Horsley was "for so many years...regarded by myself as more than a father or valued friend I have known - whose many acts, by word of help and of kindness, throughout
112-412: The surname Mulready . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mulready&oldid=913350582 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
126-744: The Hanover Gallery, and 'A Flower Girl in a Red Shawl' and 'A Newspaper Boy Selling Papers' displayed at Walker's Gallery in Liverpool in 1887. A large-scale painting "Homeless by Night" was exhibited in 1892 at the Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport , and described as a large painful picture, shows a number of gutter children of both sexes, preparing to sleep under one of the Landseer 's lions in Trafalgar Square ." A special feature of his paintings
140-599: The High Street, of which Hardy occupied the ground floor. The group evolved in a rather loose and informal manner. Other artists who soon joined Hardy and Webster were Frederick Hardy's brother George Hardy , John Callcott Horsley , and George Bernard O'Neill (who married Horsley's cousin Emma Callcott), with George Henry Boughton and Augustus Mulready frequently visiting. The artists and their families formed strong bonds and were active in their local community, playing
154-605: The days of his life to me have been so marked and fixed in love though now in tears of memory" . . Mulready's artistic career was much overshadowed by the fame of his grandfather, William Mulready, who was remembered, praised, exhibited and referred to long after his death in 1863. He exhibited, however, at the Royal Academy between 1863 and 1880, at the Hanover Gallery, and the art galleries of Liverpool and Southport, and his paintings were sold at Christie's . In 1879, 'A Naturalist's Window' shown at Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool
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#1732855055901168-428: The everyday life that they saw around them in the rural area of Kent where they lived, typically scenes of domestic life; cooking and washing, children playing and other family activities. The group started with the painter Frederick Daniel Hardy who liked the countryside around Cranbrook and settled there in 1853. He was joined there after four years by his mentor, Thomas Webster , their studio being an old house in
182-646: Was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, living, from 1871, at Waterloo Place, next door to F D Hardy . He returned to London in 1874. Being much younger than other members of the colony, he had little in common with them, and his art reflected on social issues of the day, particularly on the poverty experienced by children their struggle with adult problems - no over-sentimental rural or domestic scenes by him are known. He often depicted London street scenes with urchins and poor flower-sellers, such as 'A Day's Reckoning' and 'Sounds of Revelry', shown in 1886 at
196-426: Was praised by a local critic as representing "a group of persons in various stations of lfe, including an African nurse girl, looking at a stuffed gorilla in a naturalist shop. It is a remarkable production and does great credit to Mr A E Mulready." . His artistic manner - figurative painting with extensive use of colours and attention to detail - was similar to that of his father and grandfather. From 1870, Mulready
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