Thomas James Mulvany

Thomas James Mulvany (1779–1845) was an Irish painter and keeper of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

When the Dublin Society disposed of their premises in 1819, the artists were left without a place for exhibition.

A charter was obtained in 1823 and the Royal Hibernian Academy founded under the presidency of Francis Johnston; Mulvany and his brother were two of the 14 academics first elected.

[4] Their son George Francis Mulvany (1809–1869), also practised as a painter.

He succeeded his father as keeper of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and in 1854 he was elected the first director of the newly founded National Gallery of Ireland.