Charles Fairfax Murray

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Charles Fairfax Murray
1849-1919
Portrait of Clara Sentance
1870
Watercolor and opaque watercolor or tempera over black chalk, on wove paper wrapped over wooden support and lined with linen.
12 1/16 x 9 1/2 inches (306 x 243 mm)
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
1973.20

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Watermark: none visible through lining.

Inscription: 

Inscribed, dated, and signed by the artist in pen and blue ink on banderole at right center, "Clara Sentance 1870 CFM"; inscribed, signed, and dated in brush and brown wash on the linen backing, "Clara Sentance / C. F. Murray / 1870 / Watercolor"; signed by the artist on the paper backing of the frame in pen and brown ink, "Chas. F. Murray".

Provenance: 
Sale, London, Christie's, 1 October 1973, lot 93, repr.
Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 174.

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