Charles Oliver Murray
Charles Oliver Murray (1 September 1842 – 11 December 1923) was a Scottish artist and printmaker. Charles Oliver Murray was born in the village of Denholm in Roxburghshire in 1842, Murray trained at the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh and moved to London by 1872. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers on 7 May 1881.
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Charles Oliver Murray
Charles Oliver Murray · Cassell's illustrated history of India, Volume 1. Cassell Co., London, 1879. Onlineː · Public domain
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- 1842.
- Died
- 1923. · London.
- Occupation
- painter, etcher, artist and illustrator.
- Education
- Edinburgh College of Art.
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Charles Oliver Murray (1 September 1842 – 11 December 1923) was a Scottish artist and printmaker. Charles Oliver Murray was born in the village of Denholm in Roxburghshire in 1842, Murray trained at the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh and moved to London by 1872. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers on 7 May 1881.
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He had his work published widely in both The Portfolio and The Art Journal from the 1870s onwards, and frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1872 onwards. Murray died in London on 11 December 1923. He is buried in the Ladywell Cemetery in south-east London.
• Illustration — Murray's engraving of John Quartley's Battle of Towton • Illustration — Magdalen College Oxford
Charles Oliver Murray - Attack on St Paul's, Bourbon, 1809
Charles Oliver Murray · Cassell's illustrated history of India, Volume 1. Cassell Co., London, 1879. Onlineː
Charles Oliver Murray - Death of the Arab pirate in the Persian Gulf, c. 1810
Charles Oliver Murray · Cassell's illustrated history of India, Volume 1. Cassell Co., London, 1879. Onlineː
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Charles Oliver Murray was born on 1 January 1842.
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Charles Oliver Murray died on 1 January 1923.
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- 1.'Births, Marriages, and Deaths', Hawick Express, 14 December 1923, p. 3.
- 2.Anon. Murray, Charles Oliver. The Orchar Collection:Prints. University of St Andrews. 2014.
- 3.Obituary, Evening Telegraph [Dundee], 14 December 1923, p. 8.
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