John Mulvany
Irish-born American artist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the 19th-century Irish architect, see John Skipton Mulvany.
John Mulvany (c. 1839 – 1906) was an Irish born American artist best known as an artist of the American West[1] who painted the first large (11ftx21ft) image of General Custer’s defeat by the Oglala Sioux Indians at Little Big Horn in 1876. Mulvany's painting Custer’s Last Rally, was finished in 1881.[2] In Ireland, he is known for The Battle of Aughrim, painted in 1885[3] and exhibited in Dublin in 2010.[4]
Mulvany also recorded the American Civil War on canvas as well as maintaining a career as a portrait painter throughout his life.[5]