Augustus Edwin Mulready. Augustus Edwin Mulready 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, came to London from Ireland and established himself as a very successful and popular genre painter and book illustrator.
His grandmother Elizabeth Mulready, née Varley was a landscape painter, and the sister of artist John Varley. Mulready was born in Kensal Green, London, the third of five children of William Mulready Junior, and his wife Sara.
He studied art at 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 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
Mulready came from a family of artists. His grandfather, William Mulready, came to London from Ireland and established himself as a very successful and popular genre painter and book illustrator.
His grandmother Elizabeth Mulready, née Varley was a landscape painter, and the sister of artist John Varley. Mulready was born in Kensal Green, London, the third of five children of William Mulready Junior, and his wife Sara.
He studied art at 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 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
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