The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-23
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street Rrpoklyn, which Is "" home uf u
sister. Mrs Alice Muldoon. There were
numerous letters. -ptuo ~ them five years
did, which spoke 81 hia we'll known picture
and IL exhibition IN various places. ono
letter was from Mayor Dune of Chicago
m answer to congratulations over tn"
MAYORS election. Their was also q photo
graphic reproduction Of Clusters Lat
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George II Rowe, the editor " the Grrcu-
point Sirr, who had refrlcrdcd Mulvar ev,
naid that six or seven years ago he had read
that Mulvanev was somewhere in Green
point and he searched for him and hraily
found him painting in a loft NJ n man who
made sounding boards for large churches,
That was on lakewood street Mulvarev
used to decorate the sounding boards with
pictures of his conception of the Holy Ghost.
Mr.. Rowe encouraged him in his work.
sought customers for him and let hIm
occpy his flee for a long time.
About three months ago MulVanev fell
from an attack of vertigo and injured his
face badly. He refused to have IL treated
and he became an eyesore to his friends.
Recently he fell again and cut his face.
A condition akin to blood poisoning set
in. Then it is believed he lost hope and
made up his mind to die.
Mulvarey wrote verses for his own amuse-
ment occasionally arc two of these poems
we're found in his effects, one was entitled
sBiddy Martin II read:
I'm lonesome to night, Blddy Martin,
And myself | don't know what to do.
sure, I'd go TO the christenin' a whis,lin'
Were 1t not for my thlnkin' OF you.
hut I'll go to New York. Riddy Martin,
To me cousins beyond the deep sea.
And when | am there. Biddy Martin.
think youll be thinkin' OF me.
There was another set of verses, entitled
From the Firing Line" II read.
Comrades. don't bc worried.
It's only a scratch or two.
IL bind the wound and then
.oa'n think that all the world Is new.
How goes the aght'" YOU asked me-
And Is Bill wounded, too
You were both al the stump
Taking deadly aim. but the enemy's was true.
! looked at the stump this morning.
Filled with bullets true:
BIZ was there and the stump was there,
Rlddlcd with bullets blue.
Mulvaney came to this country when he
was ~ years old, just before the civil war.
Asa boy he worked around the old Academy
of Design and finally studied a little under
Prof. Waudesford. The war came on and
he ven to the front, where he made sketches
and nuns around as a boy. After the war
he saved money and went to Munich, where
he studied under Wagner and Piloty and
Kaulbach. While there he won a bronze
medal. Then he went to Antwerp and
made a study of Rembrandt under De Keyser
and Van Lorbes. He studied also in Paris.
After his return to this country he went
West and made a study of Indian and army
life. He painted many, Indian portraits
and after the battle of the Little Big Horn
he went there and began his Custer picture.
He was three years at work on It. 1t was
81 by IL feet in dimensions and the figures
we're life size. 1t represented Custer stand
ing in the centre of a group of the dead, with
half a dozen companions and one horse.
The men were firing their last shots.
The picture attracted a good deal of at
tention and was exhibited all over the
country. How much Mulvaney got for it
is not known. 1t finally landed with the
owner of a pickle establishment and has
clone duty ever since as an advertisement.
A replica of the picture, for which he Is said
to have got $3.50, is doing similar service in
London.
The Striker" another picture by Null
vaney, is a representation of a miner
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where his wife is sitting on a soap box,
the only article of furniture, while his
aged father, wearing an empty sleeve from
war time, stands behind him, The man is
gazing at the collieries in full working on
dition and there is anger and despair on his
face. Another OF his pictures is that of a
Boer and an Irish scout in the Boer war,
crouching for a shot at the red coats, while
n third mar holds the horses in the rear.
He also painted THE Trial Of a Horse
Thief " THE Battle Of Aughr.m, The Bat
te Of Atlanta and The Anarchists" in
which a company of men are drawing cards
to select one of their number to do murder.
A dozen can depicting military
scenes, which he never sold, are now lying
around storage places in Greenpoint.
There are probably more than "A score
of life size portraits done by him in Brook,
lvn. One of his latest was a picture. OF
Bishop Mcdonnell, painted for Father
Walsh Of the Church Of Our Lady of Mount
Carmel in Astoria. He also painted a
picture of Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia
lately and got a letter of thanks from the
Mayor, who was asked to send his. photo:
graph to Mulvaney. He was a friend Of
Henry Watterson and had received much
praise from him, and he was very proud
Of a resolution passed by the Legislature
Of Kentucky commissioning him to make
a portrait Of John C. Breckenridge OF that
State. He had recently a letter from Gen;
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