Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
William James Muller
The artist's studio, London
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July 8, 02:18 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
William James Muller
Bristol 1812 - 1845
The artist's studio, London
Pencil on blue-grey laid paper, watermarked Snelgrove's / 1829;
signed with the artist's monogram lower right: WJM
191 by 304 mm
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 26 March 1975, lot 195,
where acquired by Cyril and Shirley Fry
where acquired by Cyril and Shirley Fry
Bristol, Museum and Art Gallery, William James Muller 1812-1845, 1991, no. 179 (lent by Cyril and Shirley Fry)
This drawing is thought to depict Muller's London studio at 22 Charlotte Street in Bloomsbury. The large Egyptian town scene, which can be seen on the easel, would appear to date the work to after 1839, the year Muller returned from Egypt.
The artists seen hard at work are likely to include Muller's pupil, Edward Dighton, and his friend James Chisholm Gooden, who N. Neal Solly (an early biographer) describes as 'often at the Charlotte Street studio'.1
1. N. Neal Solly, Memoir of the Life of William Muller, London 1875, pp. 101-2
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