Murray Album

Artists

Description

Album with blue-cloth-covered cardboard covers and black-leather-covered spine and corners. White silked paper (treated with clay to resemble silk) endpapers. 25 pages of thick wove card attached with cloth guards. Pages numbered in graphite at lower right. Contents: The album was assembled by Sir David Murray (1849-1933), and includes Sargent's sketches and caricatures from Royal Academy meetings [many on Royal Academy stationery]: portraits of Murray, John Seymour Lucas (1849-1923), Sir Edward J. Poynter (1836-1919); Andrew C. Gow (1848-1920); Ernest A. Waterlow (1850-1919), Sir Frederick A. Eaton (1938-1913), and a self-portrait. Also, profiles of Madame Gautreau, sketches for the portrait of Lady Eden (1906, Philadelphia Museum of Art); caricature of Mrs. George Mosenthal; three sketches of a female dancer, miscellaneous sketches.

Dimensions

30.5 x 25 x 2.5 cm (12 x 9 13/16 x 1 in.)

Provenance

David Murray, London, sold; [through Christie’s, London, May 28, 1934, lot 2], sold; [to Martin Birnbaum], gift; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1935, bequeathed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943 A number of the drawings in this album were given to Murray (a Scottish landscape painter and Royal Academician, 1849-1933) by Sargent. Murray lived at 1A Langham Chambers, Portland Place, London.