Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Mullins, George

by Lionel Henry Cust

MULLINS, GEORGE (fl. 1760–1775), painter, was a native of Ireland, and studied painting under James Mannin [q. v.] He was employed for some time in a manufactory belonging to Mr. Wise at Waterford, where he painted trays and snuffboxes like those made at Birmingham. He obtained, however, some success as a landscape-painter, and coming to London exhibited at the early exhibitions of the Royal Academy from 1770 to 1775. He married a young woman who kept an alehouse near Temple Bar, called the Horseshoe and Magpye, a place of popular resort. The date of his death is not known.

[Pasquin's Artists of Ireland; Sarsfield Taylor's Fine Arts of Great Britain and Ireland; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists.]

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