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{{short description|Irish painter (1803–1868)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name                = Bernard Mulrenin
| image               = Bernard Mulrenin, Self-Portrait.png
| caption             = ''Self-Portrait'' by Bernard Mulrenin
| birth_date          = 1803
| birth_place         = [[County Sligo]],<ref>
{{cite book
|last= McTernan |first= John C. |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJqfAAAAMAAJ |title= Historic Sligo: A Bibliographical Introduction to ... County Sligo |publisher= Yeats Country Publications |location= [[Sligo]] |date= 1965 |access-date= 9 June 2022}}</ref><ref name= "Catalogue1">
{{cite book
|author=<!--not stated--> |editor= [[National Gallery of Ireland]] |title= Catalogue of Pictures and Other Works of Art in the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, Ireland |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=E1BOAQAAMAAJ |publisher= [[Alexander Thom (almanac editor)|Alex Thom]] & Co. |page= 101 |date= 1904 |access-date= 9 June 2022}}</ref> [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Ireland]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|df=yes|1868|3|22|1803}}
| death_place         = [[Pearse Street|Great Brunswick Street]],<ref name= "Strickland" /> [[Dublin]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Ireland]]<ref name= "Catalogue1" /><ref name= "Godwin">
{{cite magazine
|editor-last= Godwin |editor-first= George |editor-link= George Godwin |magazine= [[Building (magazine)|The Builder]] |title= The Dead Year |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=kJSoaDFEoDcC |publisher= Publishing Office at 1 York Street, [[Covent Garden]], W.C. |location= [[London]] |volume= 27 |page= 25 |date= 1869 |access-date= 9 June 2022}}</ref>
| resting_place       = [[St Andrew's Church, Westland Row, Dublin|St. Andrew's Church]], [[Westland Row]], Dublin<ref name= "DCC">{{cite web |url=https://databases.dublincity.ie/search.php?searchtype=surname&searchtoken=two&resourceid=1&resource=Community%20memory:%20plaques%20and%20public%20memorials&search_surname=Mulrenin&search_firstname=&search_location=&recordcount=2&currentpage=1 |title= Libraries and Archive - Heritage Databases |author=<!--Not stated--> |website= Dublin City Council |publisher= [[Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive|Dublin City Public Libraries]] |access-date= 11 June 2022}}</ref>
| nationality         = [[Ireland|Irish]]
| elected             = [[Royal Hibernian Academy]]<ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Not stated--> |url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2981839&view=1up&seq=493&skin=2021&q1=mulrenin |title= Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin: Report of the Council for 1867-68 |journal= Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education |publisher= [[Eyre & Spottiswoode|George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode]] |location= [[London]] |volume= 16 |page= 445 |date= 1869 |access-date= 12 June 2022}}</ref>
| spouse              = {{marriage |Mary Quill|<!--unknown-->|15 May 1844|end=d.}}<ref name= "DCC" />
| field               = [[Portrait miniature|Painting (miniature)]]
| module              =
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    | signature       = [[File:Bernard Mulrenin painting signature.png|130px]]}}
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'''Bernard Mulrenin''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|RHA}} (1803 – 22 March 1868<ref name= "Strickland" />) was an Irish [[Painting|painter]] best known for his [[Portrait miniature|miniatures]].<ref name= "Catalogue1" /><ref name= "Godwin" />

He is associated with the early [[Celtic Revival]] movement,<ref>
{{cite web
|url= http://www.nival.ie/collections/exhibitions-database/view/exhibition/exb-name/the-early-celtic-revival/ |last= Sheehy |first= Jeanne |author-link= Jeanne Sheehy |website= [[NIVAL (National Irish Visual Arts Library)]] |title= 1980 National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; exh: "The Early Celtic Revival." |publisher= [[National Gallery of Ireland]] |location= [[Dublin]] |date= 1980 |access-date= 12 June 2022}}</ref><ref name= "Ringel">
{{cite web
|url= https://victorianweb.org/art/design/celtic/ringel10.html |last= Ringel-Ensley |first= Meredith |website= [[Victorian Web]] |title= Fine Arts in the Celtic Revival |orig-date= 2007 |date= 2016 |access-date= 12 June 2022}}</ref> and is remembered for his leadership and frequent [[art exhibition|exhibitions]] at the [[Royal Hibernian Academy]].<ref name= "Catalogue1" /> The subjects of Mulrenin's [[portrait]]ure include individuals connected to [[Irish Nationalism]], both [[Protestant Irish nationalists|Protestant]] and [[Irish Catholics|Catholic]].

==Biography==
Mulrenin was born in [[County Sligo]], Ireland. He developed his techniques for illustration and painting with the support of his local community, practicing primarily in portrait miniatures.<ref name= "Strickland" /> To supplement his work as a painter, Mulrenin found employment with the [[Ordnance Survey]] in Ireland.<ref name= "Nation" />

In 1825, Mulrenin moved to [[Dublin]]. Within the year, he was able to exhibit a selection of his works at the newly-established [[Royal Hibernian Academy]].<ref name= "Foster" /> An early friend and [[Patronage|patron]] of Mulrenin's in Dublin was the [[novelist]] [[Lady Morgan]],<ref name= "Nation">
{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |title= Death of Bernard Mulrenin. M.R.H.A. |url= https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001424/18680328/066/0014 |url-access= subscription |work= [[The Nation (Irish newspaper)|The Nation]] |location= [[Dublin]] |page= 510 |date= 28 March 1868 |access-date= 9 June 2022}}</ref> who introduced Mulrenin to politicians and creatives including [[Amelia Curran (painter)|Amelia Curran]],<ref name= "Clark">
{{cite encyclopedia |last= Clarke |first= Frances |title= Curran, Amelia |url= https://www.dib.ie/biography/curran-amelia-a2315 |website= [[Dictionary of Irish Biography|The Dictionary of Irish Biography]] |publisher= [[Royal Irish Academy]] |date= 2009 |doi= 10.3318/dib.002315.v1|url-access= subscription |doi-access= free }}</ref> [[Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont|Lord Charlemont]], [[Thomas Moore]], [[Richard Lalor Sheil]], and [[Stephen Woulfe|Chief Baron Woulfe]].<ref name= "Mew">
{{cite journal |last= Mew |first= Edward |title= Dublin Places and Persons |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/20501702 |url-access= subscription |publisher= Irish Jesuit Province |journal= [[Irish Monthly]] |volume= 3 |page= 655 |date= 1875 |jstor= 20501702 |access-date= 9 June 2022}}</ref> In the 1830s, Mulrenin experienced continued growth in his business, especially after the death of [[John Comerford]] in 1832 and the relocation of [[Samuel Lover]] to [[London]] in 1835,<ref name= "Caffrey">
{{cite encyclopedia |last= Caffrey |first= Paul |title= Lover, Samuel |url= https://www.dib.ie/biography/lover-samuel-a4892 |website= [[Dictionary of Irish Biography|The Dictionary of Irish Biography]] |publisher= [[Royal Irish Academy]] |date= 2009 |doi= 10.3318/dib.004892.v1|url-access= subscription |doi-access= free }}</ref> since both men were viewed as Ireland's preeminent miniaturists.<ref name= "Strickland" /><ref>
{{cite book
|last1= Williamson |first1= George Charles |author-link= G. C. Williamson |last2= Williams |first2= Alyn |title= How to Identify Portrait Miniatures |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MAdZAAAAYAAJ
|publisher= [[George Bell & Sons|G. Bell]] |pages= 83–84 |date= 1904 |isbn= 1436633737}}</ref>

[[File:Earl of Mulgrave Tribute Medal, 1837.png|thumb|left|255px|Tribute [[medal]] to [[Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby|Constantine Phipps, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave]], 1837, [[Art in bronze and brass|bronze]]. Designed by Mulrenin.<ref name= "Gregory">
{{cite book |last= Gregory |first= James |title= Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=13VMEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Bernard+Mulrenin%22+-wikipedia&pg=PT161 |publisher= [[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |location= [[London]] |date= 2022 |isbn= 9781350142602 |access-date= June 9, 2022}}</ref>]]
Mulrenin received a court appointment from the [[George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon|Earl of Clarendon]] in 1848,<ref name= "Moore">
{{cite journal |last= Moore |first= Desmond F. |title= The Royal Hibernian Academy |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/30104289 |url-access= subscription |publisher= [[Old Dublin Society]] |journal= [[Dublin Historical Record]] |volume= 21 |issue= 1 |page= 35 |date= 1966 |jstor= 30104289 |access-date= 6 June 2022}}</ref> and his first exhibition at the [[Royal Academy of Arts]] in 1851.<ref name= "Foster">
{{cite book |last= Foster |first= Joshua James |title= Miniature Painters, British and Foreign: With Some Account of Those who Practised in America in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. II |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=cjlIAQAAIAAJ |date= 1903 |publisher= Dickinsons; [[E. P. Dutton|Dutton]] |location= [[London]]; [[New York City]] |page= 145 |access-date= 9 June 2022}}</ref> Nevertheless, he remained loyal to the [[Royal Hibernian Academy|RHA]], exhibiting over 400 works in his lifetime.<ref>{{cite letter|last=Stewart|first=Ann|recipient=[[Alf MacLochlainn]]|subject=Biographical information on Bernard Mulrenin|date=21 February 1992|url=https://www.sourcenationalgallery.ie/collection/calm-r8690|location=[[National Gallery Ireland|NGI]]: Centre for the Study of Irish Art|access-date=15 June 2022|ref=IE NGI/IA/MUL1/1/2/2}}</ref> External pressures on public buying power, such as the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]], however, led the academy to a financial crisis in the 1850s. In March 1856, [[Michael Angelo Hayes]] was elected secretary and, with the support of the president [[Martin Cregan]] and the treasurer [[Joseph Robinson Kirk|Joseph Kirk]], pressed for reform. Mulrenin and his colleague [[George Francis Mulvany|Mulvany]] resisted these measures, and in December 1856, the academy elected Mulrenin and [[George Petrie (antiquarian)|George Petrie]] in place of Hayes and Cregan, respectively.<ref>
{{cite magazine
|last= Thom |first= Alexander |author-link= Alexander Thom (almanac editor) |title= Royal Hibernian Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Lower Abbey-Street |magazine= [[Alexander Thom (almanac editor)|Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory of the United Kingdom, for the year 1857]] |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=BXc9AAAAcAAJ |publisher= [[Alexander Thom (almanac editor)|Alexander Thom]] and Sons |location= [[Dublin]] |pages= v ; 634 |date= 1857 |access-date= 9 June 2022}}</ref><ref>
{{cite encyclopedia
|last= Minch |first= Rebecca |title= Hayes, Michael Angelo |url= https://www.dib.ie/biography/hayes-michael-angelo-a3875 |website= [[Dictionary of Irish Biography|The Dictionary of Irish Biography]] |publisher= [[Royal Irish Academy]] |date= 2013 |doi= 10.3318/dib.003875.v1|url-access= subscription |doi-access= free }}</ref> The election was disputed, and appeals for resolution were made to [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland|Lord Lieutenant]] [[George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle|George Howard]], but he did not intervene. The school was closed temporarily the following year.<ref>
{{cite journal
|last= Turpin |first= John |title= The RHA Schools 1826-1906 |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/20492690 |url-access= subscription |journal= Irish Arts Review Yearbook |year= 1991 |publisher= Irish Arts Review |location= [[Dublin]] |page= 199 |jstor= 20492690 |access-date= 9 June 2022}}</ref>

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 | direction = vertical
 | width = 300
 | header = 
 | image1 = View of the Palace of Cloyne, from the south or garden front.png
 | alt1 = Natural landscape with palace in background, sepia tone
 | caption1 = ''View of the Palace of [[Cloyne]], from the south or garden front'', [[lithograph]]<ref name= "Jones">
{{cite book
|last= Jones |first= Tom |title= George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=uEoDEAAAQBAJ |publisher= [[Princeton University Press]] |location= [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]] |page= XII |date= 2021 |isbn= 9780691159805}}</ref>
 | image2 = View of the College of Surgeons, Dublin.png
 | alt2 = Neoclassical facade of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland with people walking
 | caption2 = ''View of the [[Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland|College of Surgeons]], [[Dublin]]'', 1828, [[lithograph]] from a [[drawing]] by Mulrenin<ref>
{{cite archive
|last = Mulrenin |first = Bernard |artist-link = Bernard Mulrenin |institution = [[National Library of Ireland]] |collection = Prints & Drawings |collection-url = https://digital.nli.ie/Record/vtls000547618 |item-id = ET C98; ET C98a |type = graphic |date = 1828 |access-date= 11 June 2022}}</ref>
}}

In 1859, Mulrenin read a paper before the [[Royal Dublin Society|Royal Dublin Society's]] [[Royal Dublin Society#Arts|fine arts]] section (which included the Photographic Society of Ireland). In the speech, Mulrenin argued that [[photography]] could be used as an aide, instead of a replacement, to portrait painting.<ref name= "RPS">
{{cite journal |last=Mulrenin |first=Bernard |title= On a Process by which Photographic Portraits may be transcribed into bonda fide Miniature Paintings on Marble, Ivory, and other Surfaces |journal= The Journal of the Royal Dublin Society |volume=2 |publisher= Hodges, Smith and Co.; [[Gill (publisher)|M. H. Gill]] |location= [[Dublin]] |date= 1860}}</ref> He claimed to have devised a process of transferring [[Negative (photography)|negatives]] to [[marble]] and [[ivory]], rendering the image like a miniature painting.<ref>
{{cite encyclopedia
|editor-last= Hannavy |editor-first= John |encyclopedia= Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography: Volume 1, A-I |title= Ireland |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yVFdAgAAQBAJ |publisher= [[Routledge]] |location= London |page= 751 |isbn= 978-1135873264 |date= 2013 |access-date= 12 June 2022}}</ref> In 1864, Mulrenin's portrait of [[Oscar Wilde|Oscar Wilde's]] [[Jane Wilde|mother]] exhibited at the [[Royal Hibernian Academy|RHA]].<ref>
{{cite book |last= Sloan |first= John |title= Authors in Context: Oscar Wilde |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=L6rKsbWYUeIC&q=parents+of+bernard+mulrenin |isbn= 9780191587597 |publisher= [[Oxford University Press]] |location= [[Oxford]] |page= 2 |date= 2003 |access-date= 9 June 2022}}</ref> He was a [[witness]] for the Wilde's [[Defense (legal)|defense]] in the [[libel]] case brought against them by [[Jane Wilde#Scandals|Mary Travers]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Not stated--> |title= The Extraordinary Libel Case in Dublin |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=J0k-AAAAIBAJ&q=Mulrenin&pg=PA3&article_id=2110,8341090#v=onepage |work= [[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Glasgow Herald]] |location= [[Glasgow]] |page= 3 |date= 1864 |access-date= 12 June 2022}}</ref>

==Works in collections==

* [[National Gallery of Ireland]]
* [[National Library of Ireland]]
* [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]]
* [[Victoria and Albert Museum]]
* [[British Museum]]<ref>
{{cite archive |last1= Mulrenin |first1= Bernard |last2= Brown |first2= G. |item= Medal |item-url= https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_BNK-EngM-434 |item-id= BNK,EngM.434 |collection= Coins and Medals |institution= [[British Museum]] |date= 1837 |access-date= 15 June 2022}}</ref>
* [[Harry Ransom Center]]<ref name= "HRC">
{{cite archive |last= Mulrenin |first= Bernard |item= [[Jane Wilde|Lady Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde]], circa 1850s; [[William Wilde]], circa 1846 |collection= Oscar Wilde: An Inventory of His Art Collection at the Harry Ransom Center |collection-url= https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/pdf/01298.pdf |institution= Harry Ransom Center |box= Wilde, O., Box 1 |location= Flat Files |series= Series II. Other Portraits, 1840s-1870s  |accession= 65.78.2a; 65.78.3a |access-date= 9 June 2022}}</ref>

==Selected portraits==
<div style=display:inline-table>
{{Static row numbers}}
{| class="wikitable" border=1 style=text-align:center
|+ Works sorted alphabetically by surname
|- 
!Portrait
!Subject
!Date
!Medium(s)
!Institution
!Profession
!Notes
!Ref.

|-
|[[File:Portrait of George Ensor.png|80px|center|frameless]]
|[[George Ensor]]
|{{circa|1820-1843}}
|[[lithograph]]
|[[National Library of Ireland]]
|[[author]]
|
|style=text-align:center|<ref name= "NLI-3">
{{cite archive
|last = Mulrenin
|first = Bernard
|artist-link = Bernard Mulrenin
|item = George Ensor
|item-url = https://digital.nli.ie/Record/vtls000289280
|item-id = EP ENSO-GE (2) II
|institution = [[National Library of Ireland]]
|collection = Prints & Drawings
|type = graphic
|date = bet. 1820 and 1843}}
</ref>

|-
|[[File:John Hogan, sculptor.png|80px|center|frameless]]
|[[John Hogan (sculptor)|John Hogan]]
|
|[[charcoal]]
|[[National Gallery of Ireland]]
|[[sculptor]]
|purchased: 1878
|style=text-align:center|<ref name= "NGI-1">
{{cite archive
|last = Mulrenin
|first = Bernard
|artist-link = Bernard Mulrenin
|item = John Hogan (1800-1858), Sculptor
|item-url = http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/6213/john-hogan-18001858-sculptor?ctx=31d90be7-7e56-41b1-8560-decb58393860&idx=3
|institution = [[National Gallery of Ireland]]
|collection = Objects of: Bernard Mulrenin
|collection-url = http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/people/1839/bernard-mulrenin/objects
|item-id = NGI.2197
|type = graphic
|date = Purchased, 1878}}
</ref>

|-
|[[File:Daniel O'Connell.png|80px|center|frameless]]
|[[Daniel O'Connell]]
|1836
|[[watercolour]]
[[Gouache|bodycolour]]
|[[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]]
|[[politician]]
|
|style=text-align:center|<ref name= "NPG-1">
{{cite archive
|last = Mulrenin
|first = Bernard
|artist-link = Bernard Mulrenin
|item = Daniel O'Connell
|item-url = https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?LinkID=mp03348&page=1&rNo=2&role=sit
|institution = [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]]
|collection = Primary Collection
|collection-url = https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/about/primary-collection/
|item-id = NPG 208
|type = graphic
|date = 1836}}
</ref>

|-
|[[File:Charles O'Conor (1710-1791), Historian and Antiquary.png|80px|center|frameless]]
|[[Charles O'Conor (historian)|Charles O'Conor]]
|
|[[watercolour]]
|[[National Gallery of Ireland]]
|[[historian]]
|
|style=text-align:center|<ref name= "NGI-4">
{{cite archive
|last = Mulrenin
|first = Bernard
|artist-link = Bernard Mulrenin
|item = Charles O'Connor (1710-1791), Historian and Antiquary
|item-url = http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/6212/charles-oconnor-17101791-historian-and-antiquary?ctx=7251fd65-2984-44db-991c-2ce1b386e5ab&idx=2
|institution = [[National Gallery of Ireland]]
|collection = Objects of: Bernard Mulrenin
|collection-url = http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/people/1839/bernard-mulrenin/objects
|item-id = NGI.2196
|type = graphic
|date = unknown}}
</ref>

|-
|[[File:Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854).png|80px|center|frameless]]
|[[Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey|Lord Paget]]
|
|[[lithograph]]
|[[National Gallery of Ireland]]
|[[politician]]
|presented: 1901;
''uncertain attribution''
|style=text-align:center|<ref name= "NGI-3">
{{cite archive
|last = Mulrenin
|first = Bernard
|artist-link = Bernard Mulrenin
|item = Portrait of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
|item-url = http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/1442/portrait-of-henry-william-paget-1st-marquess-of-anglesey-1?ctx=8e747928-f96a-48a5-bc42-0fdd79928e92&idx=1
|item-id = NGI.11233
|institution = [[National Gallery of Ireland]]
|collection = Objects of: Bernard Mulrenin
|type = graphic
|date = presented 1901}}
</ref>

|-
|[[File:Portrait of George Petrie.png|80px|center|frameless]]
|[[George Petrie (antiquarian)|George Petrie]]
|
|[[oil]]
|[[National Gallery of Ireland]]
|[[antiquarian]]
|presented: 1884
|style=text-align:center|<ref name= "NGI-2">
{{cite archive
|last = Mulrenin
|first = Bernard
|artist-link = Bernard Mulrenin
|item = Portrait of George Petrie (1790-1866), Artist and Archaeologist
|item-url = http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/8209/portrait-of-george-petrie-17901866-artist-and-archaeolog?ctx=31d90be7-7e56-41b1-8560-decb58393860&idx=4
|institution = [[National Gallery of Ireland]]
|collection = Objects of: Bernard Mulrenin
|collection-url = http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/people/1839/bernard-mulrenin/objects
|item-id = NGI.408
|type = graphic
|date = Presented, 1884}}
</ref>

|-
|[[File:Marie Taglioni (ballerina).jpg|80px|center|frameless]]
|[[Marie Taglioni]]
|1834
|[[lithograph]]
[[watercolour]]
|[[Victoria and Albert Museum]]
|[[ballerina]]
|
|style=text-align:center|<ref name= "VandA-2">
{{cite archive
|last = Mulrenin
|first = Bernard
|artist-link = Bernard Mulrenin
|item = Mademoiselle Taglioni
|item-url = https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O106048/mademoiselle-taglioni-print-mulrenin-bernard/
|institution = [[Victoria and Albert Museum]]
|collection = Theatre and Performance Collection
|collection-url = https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?id_collection=THES48602
|type = print
|date = 1834}}
</ref>

|-
|[[File:Jane Wilde, 1864.png|80px|center|frameless]]
|[[Jane Wilde]]
|1864
|[[watercolour]]
|personal archives:
[[Merlin Holland]]<ref name= "Fitzsimons">
{{cite book
|last= Fitzsimons
|first= Eleanor
|title= Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew
|publisher= [[Abrams Books|ABRAMS, Incorporated (Ignition)]]
|location= [[New York City]]
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Hc2XDwAAQBAJ
|page= 2
|date= 2017
|isbn= 9781468313260}}
</ref>
|[[poet]]
|
|style=text-align:center|<ref>
{{cite journal
|last= Grant
|first= Roger
|title= Speranza's Visit to Scotland Summer 1847
|url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/48571630
|url-access= subscription
|publisher= [[Oscar Wilde]] Society
|location= [[East Molesey]], [[Surrey]], [[UK]]
|journal= The Wildean
|volume= 46
|page= 106
|date= 2015
|issue= 46
|jstor= 48571630
|access-date= June 8, 2022}}</ref>
|-
|}
</div>

===Other notable subjects===
{{columns-start|num=3|width=60em|}}
'''Scientists and Academics'''
* [[John Thomas Gilbert]]<ref name= "NLI-1" />
* [[Charles Graves (bishop)|Charles Graves]]<ref name= "NLI-1" />
* [[Martin Haverty]]<ref name= "Strickland">
{{cite book
|last= Strickland |first= Walter |author-link= Walter G. Strickland |title= A Dictionary of Irish Artists: Vol. II, L to Z |url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066033443&view=1up&seq=9&skin=2021&q1=mulrenin |publisher=[[Joseph Maunsel Hone|Maunsel]] & Company ([[George Roberts (publisher)|Roberts]] and [[Stephen Gwynn|Gwynn]] |location= [[Dublin]] and [[London]] |pages= 150⁠–152 |date= 1913 |access-date= 8 June 2022}}</ref>
* [[Eugene O'Curry]]<ref name= "NLI-1" />
* [[John O'Donovan (scholar)|John O'Donovan]]<ref name= "NLI-1" />
* [[William Reeves (bishop)|William Reeves]]<ref name= "NLI-1">
{{cite archive
|last = Mulrenin |first = Bernard |artist-link = Bernard Mulrenin |institution = [[National Library of Ireland]] |collection = Prints & Drawings: Irish Archaeologists |collection-url = https://digital.nli.ie/Record/vtls000248044/HoldingsILS#tabnav |item-id = PD 4302 TX |type = graphic |date = {{circa|1325|1868}} |access-date= 7 June 2022}}</ref>
* [[James Henthorn Todd]]<ref name= "NLI-1" />
{{column}}
'''Politicians and Nobility'''
* [[Sir Thomas Esmonde, 9th Baronet|Thomas Esmonde]]<ref name= "Gaul">
{{cite book
|last= Gaul |first= Liam |title= Johnstown Castle: A History |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KlkTDQAAQBAJ |publisher= [[The History Press]] Ireland |location= [[Dublin]] |date= 2014 |isbn= 9780750959018}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Larcom]]<ref name= "NLI-1" />
* [[Baron Cloncurry|Edward Lawless]]<ref name= "Strickland" />
'''Other'''
* [[Frances Mary Teresa Ball]]<ref>
{{cite encyclopedia
|last= Clarke |first= Frances |title= Ball, Mary Teresa (Frances) |url= https://www.dib.ie/biography/ball-mary-teresa-frances-a0343 |publisher= [[Royal Irish Academy]]
|website= [[Dictionary of Irish Biography|The Dictionary of Irish Biography]] |date= 2009 |doi= 10.3318/dib.000343.v1|url-access= subscription |doi-access= free }}</ref>
* [[Denis Florence MacCarthy]]<ref name= "Strickland" />
* [[William Wilde]]<ref name= "NLI-1" />
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Though he preferred to depict his contemporaries, Mulrenin also drew inspiration from non-historical figures, such as [[Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] [[King Lear]] and the [[Irish mythology|mythological]] [[Fionnuala|Fionn-ghuala]], daughter of the [[sea god]] [[Lir]].<ref name= "Pérez">
{{cite thesis
|last= Pérez |first= Marta Palacio |title= Renacimiento Irlandés: La Imagen de una Nación |trans-title= Irish Renaissance: The Image of a Nation |language= Spanish |url= https://zaguan.unizar.es/record/16483/files/TAZ-TFG-2014-1787.pdf |publisher= [[University of Zaragoza|Universidad Zaragoza]] |date= 2014 |access-date= 12 June 2022}}</ref><ref>
{{cite book |last= Maclise |first= Daniel |author-link= Daniel Maclise |editor-last= Murray |editor-first= Peter |title= Daniel Maclise, 1806-1870: Romancing the Past |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rZvrAAAAMAAJ |page= 130  |isbn= 9780948037665 |date= 2008|publisher= Crawford Art Gallery }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* http://www.artnet.com/artists/bernard-mulrenin/past-auction-results
* [https://rhagallery.ie/  Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts]

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