THE EVERYDAY SCENES FROM RURAL LIFE – William Mulready: from Ennis to the Royal Academy School

WILLIAM MULREADY 1/2 – Best known for his romanticizing depictions of rural scenes, he was an Irish genre painter. William Mulready (the pupil and brother-in-law of John Varley), he was born in Ennis, County Clare, but after six years its family moved to London, where he was accepted at the Royal Academy School. In 1802, he married Elizabeth (a landscape painter), and also their three children also become artists.

WILLIAM MULREADY 2/2 – Mulready’s paintings were popular in Victorian times, and many of his pictures show landscapes, (painting mostly everyday scenes from rural life). Visiting London, you can go to the Victoria and Albert Museum, where waiting for you two special paint: “The Sonnet” (wonderful oil painting), and “The Fight Interrupted” (Oil painting, which shows a vicar intervening between two boys who have come to blows). He died at the age of 77, and is buried in the Kensal Green Cemetery (where you can see the monument to his memory).