Page:The Strand Magazine (Volume 6).djvu/56

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
THE STRAND MAGAZINE.
55

DAVID MURRAY, A.R.A.

Born 1849.

Age 7.
From a Daguerreotype by Kennedy, Glasgow.
Age 30.
From a Photo. by D. C. Cox, Dundee.
Age 20.
From a Photo. by Alexander Brothers, Glasgow.
Present Day.
From a Photo. by the London Stereoscopic Company.


M R. DAVID MURRAY was born at Glasgow, and was at first intended to follow a commercial career, and it was only on Saturdays, when he was free from business, that he could find time to follow his inclinations in the study of art. His natural gift was, however, too powerful to be kept down by any pressure of unfavourable circumstances, and in 1882 his picture, "Glen Sannox," was one of the attractions of the Royal Academy, and gave promise of that happy rendering of Scotch scenery for which his name has since become so well known. Another of his pictures, "My Love Has Gone a-Sailing," was purchased for the nation under the Chantrey bequest; and in January, 1891, Mr. Murray was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, and has exhibited more than a hundred water-colour sketches at the Fine Art Society.

This article is issued from Wikisource. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.