biography
pronunciation:
[muhkleez]
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| lived:
| (1806–70)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Cork, Co Cork, S Ireland. He trained at the Cork School of Art and at the school of the Royal Academy in London. He is noted for the frescoes in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords: ‘The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher’ (1861) and ‘The Death of Nelson’ (1864). He was also known as an illustrator of books for Tennyson and Dickens. His sketches of contemporaries in Fraser's Magazine (1830–8) were published in 1874 and 1883. |
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