William Mulready

William Mulready PDF Author: Kathryn Moore Heleniak
Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
ISBN: 9780300023114
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Book Description
Kathryn Heleniak demonstrates how intimately Mulready's paintings were related to the social conditions of his time. His portrayal of blacks is linked to the abolition of slavery and to the British colonial experience; his children's genre is analysed in the light of nineteenth-century attitudes to childhood and sexuality, and in the light of Mulready's own deeply-rooted pessimism about human nature.