Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite - Hardcover

An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 266 pages; Physical desc. : xiv, 266 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 215-255. Subjects: Murray, Charles Fairfax (British painter, collector, dealer, 1849-1919) Murray, Charles Fairfax - Influence. Pre-Raphaelites - England - Biography. Art collectors - England - Biography. Art dealers - Great Britain - Biography. Pre-Raphaelites - Great Britain - Biography. Painters, British - 19th century. Painters, British - 20th century. Art - Collectors and collecting - Great Britain - Biography. Pre-Raphaelitism - England. Art dealers - England. Pre-Raphaelitism - Great Britain. Summary: David Elliot has written a superbly researched and presented biography of Charles Fairfax Murray, perhaps the least known of all the Pre-Raphaelite painters who was the friend of William Morris, the Rossettis, Edward Burne-Jones, and a protégé of John Ruskin. A man who prized his privacy, Murray deliberately sought anonymity, left no memoir, and his diaries revealed very little about himself as he served his friends as a supporter, confidante, and aDJutant ranging from adding miniatures to Morris' illuminated manuscripts to serving as a copyist for Ruskin. Murray's spheres of activity also came to include collecting, dealing, museology, and art-historical scholarship. A grandson of Murray, biographer David Elliot is able to offer a wealth of insights into Murray's personal and professional life as revealed by papers on both sides of the family, as well as diligently and painstaking research through the archives of Britain, Europe, and America. Charles Fairfax Murray is a magnificent and much appreciated contribution to students of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and those associated with it.