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Mulvany from Goodyear Rubber Hose and Packing Co. 21 November 1898 in the Alice Muldoon Garvey Collection and Stenzel, Franz & Kathryn, Research Files for Unpublished book on western art, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Don Russell includes a
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in 1885. His involvement in internecine fighting within the
Chicago branch in 1886 cost him the Aughrim commission and after his friend, Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin, was murdered in 1889 over financial irregularities with this same branch, Mulvany left Chicago for the west. He married Mrs. Ellen Welch
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reached the East, Mulvany immediately recognized the significance of this event and headed west to
Montana to capture it on canvas. Over the next four years, he made two trips to the battle site and set up a studio in Cincinnati, Salida, Denver and then in Kansas City., Mulvany's large masterpiece,
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After the Civil War, Mulvany worked for Samuel B. Fassett, a leading photographer in
Chicago. He submitted paintings to exhibitions in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Mulvany found a patron in St. Louis, Samuel B. Coale, who provided terms for him to study in Europe where he enrolled in the
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family) Dr. Patrick Cronin, (‘Dr. Cronin, An
Excellent Portrait’, Daily Inter Ocean 2 June 1889) Brigham Young,( Salt Lake Herald 30 Oct 1892) Dr. Robinson ("Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley" By Estill Curtis Pennington, 2011, ill, p. 75)
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Mulvany painted in Oregon, San
Francisco, Colorado and Kansas City before he finally headed East in 1896. Over his lifetime, he set up studios in 21 different cities, sketching, painting and moving on; often leaving finished works and at least one debt behind.
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Mulvany died by drowning in early May 1906; the press declared it a suicide. He was 66 years old, suffering from throat cancer, a fatal disease at the time, vertigo and possible effects of alcoholism. He is buried in
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Brooklyn, New York, where he remained the rest of his life. with a studio at 133 Greenpoint Ave. He continued his artistic career painting six known major works, as well as a duplicate of
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Mulvany never served in the army but may have worked as a sketch artist for a
Chicago newspaper. Mulvany's later Civil War paintings were praised for their realism - paintings such as
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was painted near
Oskaloosa, Iowa. The Magistrate in this trial, seated in the center of the picture, is John F. Cartwright (1827–1893), my Second Great Grandfather. The
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in New York City. The painting, reportedly sold for $ 5000, won him national recognition and a reputation as a Western painter. Other western-themed works include
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in 1890. and was divorced two years later in CO. He also had a romantic involvement with Lucy Deere, whom he met c. 1880 and contacted before his death in 1906.
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in 2010 by a dealer who thought it represented an American battle scene, purchased by an Irish art gallery, exhibited in Dublin and subsequently sold.
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Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865. Volume 2, January 1-December 31, 1863. Washington Wednesday, January 7, 1863 and Alexander Gardner in 1865.
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