James Murray

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With The Fine Art Society, London, by 1973 

Possibly, London, Royal Academy, 1864 or 1865, nos. 756 or 823 

Sir Morton Peto, 1^st Bt  (1809-1889) was an entrepreneur, civil engineer, railway developer and - for two decades - a Member of Parliament. In the early 1860s he commissioned James Murray, a leading architect, to design him a house at Kensington Palace Gardens, London. The construction took place between 1863 and 1865. The building is now the Embassy of Nepal. 

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) holds fourteen designs by Murray for the house, as well as an early photograph of the present watercolour.

RIBA37881 & RIBA37447.