MULREADY

William (son of a leather-breeches maker Leicester sq. London). b. Ennis, co. Clare 1 April 1786; taken to London 1792; student at the R.A. Nov. 1800; designed illustrations for Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare 1807, The butterfly’s ball and the gra hopper’s feast 1807, and 12 other children’s books 1807–9; A.R.A. Nov. 1815, R.A. Feb. 1816; exhibited 77 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1804–62; many of his finest pictures are in the Sheepshanks collection at South Kensington and in the National Gallery; designed the first penny postage envelope i ued by Rowland Hill in 1840; lived at Kensington Gravel Pits 1811–27 and at 1 Lindon grove, Bays water 1827 to death. d. 7 July 1863. bur. Kensal Green cemet. F. G. Stephen’s Memorials of W. Mulready (1890) 2 portraits ; Stephen’s Masterpieces of Mulready (1867); Sandby’s History of the royal academy i 355–58 (1862); S. Armytage’s Beautiful pictures by British artists (1871) 15–6; J. Dafforne’s Pictures by W. Mulready, R.A. (1872); W. C. Monk house’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 137–43; Red grave’s Century of painters ii 224–30, 298–325 (1866); I.L.N. vii 20 (1845) portrait .