William Mulready Sketches
1786-1863
Mulready’s talent was cultivated initially by the painter John Graham, and then by the sculptor Thomas Banks, so that, at the age of fourteen, he was admitted as a student to the Royal Academy School in 1800. Coming under the influence of William John Varley, he acted as a student-tutor to some other young hopefuls in the school that Vorley ran at his home.