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Mooney, Edward Ludlow

artist, was born March 25, 1813, in New York city. He executed six admirable copies of Inman's portrait of Martin Van Buren. He was elected an associate of the academy in 1839, and an academician in 1840. Among them were likenesses of Commodore Oliver H. Perry and of Governor william H. Seward, the latter now in the state house at Albany, also that of Achmet Ben Aman, the commander of the Imam of Muscat's frigate Sultan, purchased by the common council of New York. He died July 10, 1887, in New York city.