Lot Essay
Little is known about the career of William Murray and his work is mainly known through a group of pictures, chiefly small portraits of hounds, that were formerly with Ackermann.
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A Foxhound outside a Kennel
Details
WILLIAM MURRAY (active 1800-1807)
A Foxhound outside a Kennel
signed 'W. Murray Pinxt 1803' (lower center)
oil on panel
6½ x 8 in. (16.5 x 20.2 cm.)
A Foxhound outside a Kennel
signed 'W. Murray Pinxt 1803' (lower center)
oil on panel
6½ x 8 in. (16.5 x 20.2 cm.)
Provenance
E. M. W. Griffith.
with Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., 1964.
with Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., 1964.
Literature
J. Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings in the Paul Mellon Collection 1655-1867, 1978, p. 226, no. 244.