A female figure holding a palm

Details

CHARLES FAIRFAX MURRAY (1849-1919)
A female figure holding a palm
oil on panel
13 ¾ x 7 ¼ in. (34 x 19 cm.)

Provenance

John Stafford, from whom purchased by J.S. Maas.
with J.S. Maas & Co., London, 1977, where purchased by
Betty Elzea, Wilmington, Delaware, from whom purchased for the present collection.

Exhibited

London, J.S. Maas & Co., An Exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite & Romantic Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours and Prints, 31 January - 13 February 1977, no. 31, as 'Mythological figure'.

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Lot Essay

This figure of a female saint was one of three similar works by Murray formerly in the collection of John Stafford. The three figures were exhibited at the Maas Gallery in 1977. The works relate to the decorative panels Fairfax Murray painted for the Green Dining Room at the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A). The room was one of the first major commissions for Morris, Marshall & Faulkner & Co.. The initial panel designs were drawn by Burne-Jones but executed by several different painters. However, Morris was unhappy with the resulting variety and had all the panels repainted by Charles Fairfax Murray.

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