Showing posts with label William Mulready. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Mulready. Show all posts

Friday, February 14, 2014

William Mulready

William Mulready (1786-1863) was an Irish genre painter. He is best known for his romanticizing depictions of rural scenes, and for creating Mulready stationery letter sheets.

 A Lock Gate (1810)
  
 Academy Study (1842)
  
 An Old Gable (1830)
  
 Cargill and Touchwood (1831)
[These are characters from Sir Walter Scott's St. Ronan's Well.]
  
 Crossing the Ford (1842)
  
 Fair Time (Returning from the Ale-House) (1809)
[interesting story behind this painting]
  
 Othello (1840-63)
 [as portrayed by the African-American actor Ira Aldridge
  
Study of a Seated Female Nude, Seen From Behind
  
 The Child Sitter
  
 The Last In (1835)
  
 The Rattle (1808)
  
 The Sonnet (1839)
  
The Young Brother (1857)
 
 A Snow Scene (attributed to William Mulready)

Thursday, April 25, 2013

A Wealth of Williams

 William Anslow Thornley: Mouth of the Medway

 William Bromley: Playing Marbles

 William Collingwood: An Antique Interior at West Hill House, Hastings (1842)

 William Collins: Sunday Morning (1836)

 William Edward Webb: Figures Unloading Fishing Boats on a Quayside

 William Gale: Elijah and the Widow's Son

 William Henry Hunt: Pollard Elm on the Edge of the Village Pound

 William Linton: Roefield House with Low Moor Mill on the River Ribble 
with Clitheroe Castle and Pendle Hill in the Distance

 William Mulready: An Interior Including a Portrait of John Sheepshanks 
at His Residence in Old Bond Street (1832)

William Harris Weatherhead: Peeling Apples for a Pie (1886)