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This accomplished study of the nude as seen from several angles is a logical development of Mulready's superb academic drawings, which were greatly admired by Queen Victoria. He had trained at the Royal Academy in London but continued to take life-drawing classes until late in his career. His depiction of the nude links him to the traditions of Western European art - to the antique and the Italian School. The foreground figure owes a debt to Titian's Venus Anadyomene and the study of figures in different poses to Michelangelo's Bathers cartoon.
(National Gallery of Ireland: Essential Guide, 2008)
Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, Manchester, 1857
International Exhibition, London, 1862
A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Sketches etc. of the late William Mulready, Esq., Science and Art Department, South Kensington Museum, London, 1864
Manchester Art Treasures, Manchester, 1878
Loan Collection of Pictures and Drawings by J.M.W. Turner and a Selection of Pictures by some of his Contemporaries, Guildhall, 1899
Works by Irish Painters, Guildhall, London, 1904
William Mulready, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1964
Bicentenary Exhibition 1768-1968, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1968
Aspects of Irish Art, a Loan Exhibition; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 27 January - 3 March 1974; Toledo Museum of Arts, Toledo, Ohio, 17 March - 14 April 1974; St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri, 3 May - 9 June 1974
Peinture Britannique: de Gainsborough a Bacon, Galerie des Beaux Arts, Bordeaux, 1977
William Mulready: 1786-1863, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1 July - 12 October 1986; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Autumn/Winter 1986-1987
Exposed: The Victorian Nude, Tate Britain, London, 1 November 2001 - 27 January 2002; Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1 March - 2 June 2002; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 6 September 2002 - 5 January 2003