Career
Mulvany was an exhibitor with the Dublin Society of Artists, at the rooms of the Dublin Society in Hawkins Street, Dublin, in May 1809. Subsequently Mulvany became keeper of the Academy, in 1841. He died in 1845.
Mulvany married Mary Field, and they had seven children, the eldest being William Thomas Mulvany.
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. The fourth son John Skipton Mulvany was known as an architect.