Old Master & British Works on Paper
Old Master & British Works on Paper
Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
The artist's studio, London
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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
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