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William Mulready (April 1, 1786 - July 7, 1863) was an Irish genre painter living in London. He is best known for his romanticizing depictions of rural scenes. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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Choosing the Wedding Gown by William Mulready, an illustration of Ch. ...
Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730(?) – April 4, 1774) was an Irish writer and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-naturd Man (1768) and She Stoops...
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Year 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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William Mulready was born in Ennis, County Clare. Early in his life, in 1792, the family moved to London, where he was able to get an education and was taught painting well enough so that he was accepted at the Royal Academy School at the age of fourteen. For people named Ennis, see Ennis (surname). ...
County Clare (Contae an Chláir in Irish) is in the Irish province of Munster. ...
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Though married he maintained a distinct interest in boys, which provoked the ruin of his marriage in the 1820s.[1]
Many of his early pictures show landscapes, before he started to build a reputation as a genre painter from 1808 on, painting mostly everyday scenes from rural life. Besides this, he also illustrated books. His paintings were very popular in Victorian times. His first painting of importance, Returning from the Ale House, now in the Tate Gallery, London, under the title Fair Time, appeared in 1809. 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Ascension to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ...
The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ...
Year 1809 (MDCCCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ...
In 1815 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy. In the same year, he also was awarded the French "Légion d'honneur". Mulready's most important pictures are in the South Kensington Museum and in the Tate Gallery. In the former are 33, among them Hampstead Heath (1806); Giving a Bite (1836); First Love (1839); The Sonnet (1839); Choosing the Wedding Gown (1846); and The Butt (Shooting a Cherry) (1848). In the latter are five, including a Snow Scene. In the National Gallery, Dublin, are Young Brother and The Toy Seller. His Wolf and the Lamb is in royal possession. April 5-12: Mount Tambora explodes, changing climate. ...
Chiang Kai-sheks Légion dhonneur. ...
WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...
In 1840 Mulready designed the postal stationery lettersheets, known as Mulready stationery, which were introduced at the same time as the Penny Black. Postal stationery: Postcard of 1895 A piece of postal stationery is an envelope, letter sheet, or postal card with an amount of postage preprinted on it, at the postcard rate for postcards, and (usually) at the domestic first-class rate for letter sheets and envelopes. ...
Mulready stationery describes pre-gummed wrappers or envelopes, introduced as part of the British Post Office postal reforms of 1840. ...
The Penny Black, partially obscured by a red cancellation. ...
He died at the age of 77 in Bayswater, London and is buried in the nearby Kensal Green Cemetery where a monument to his memory was erected.
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Mona Lisa, Oil on wood panel painting by Leonardo da Vinci. ...
The Victoria and Albert Museum viewed from Thurloe Square. ...
See also // Opened up 1628 lettersheet showing folds, address and seal, with letter being written on the obverse 1665 Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts painting of wax sealed lettersheets In philatelic terminology a Letter sheet, often written lettersheet, is nowadays an item of postal stationery issued by a postal authority. ...
This is a list of people on the postage stamps of the Republic of Ireland, including the years when they appeared on a stamp. ...
Mulready stationery describes pre-gummed wrappers or envelopes, introduced as part of the British Post Office postal reforms of 1840. ...
Publications - Stephens, Memorials of Mulready (London, 1867)
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William Shakespeares As You Like It contains a soliloquy in Act II, Scene 7 by the melancholy Jacques. ...
Notes - ^ Brain Reade, Sexual Heretics, London, 1970. p. 16
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Other - Kensal Green Cemetery Tour Find the Mulready Tomb
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