Augustus Edwin Mulready

Augustus Edwin Mulready (23 February 1844 – 15 March 1904[citation needed]) was an English genre painter whose work often depicted London street scenes with urchins and flower-sellers.

His grandfather, William Mulready (1786–1863), came to London from Ireland and established himself as a very successful and popular genre painter and book illustrator.

[5] Being much younger than other members of the colony, he had little in common with them, and his art reflected on social issues of the day, particularly on the poverty experienced by children their struggle with adult problems - no over-sentimental rural or domestic scenes by him are known.

[7] A large-scale painting "Homeless by Night" was exhibited in 1892 at the Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, and described as a large painful picture, shows a number of gutter children of both sexes, preparing to sleep under one of the Landseer's lions in Trafalgar Square.

"[8] A special feature of his paintings is the inclusion of street posters in the background, the text of which creates additional social and political context for the depicted scene.