Lot 2: WILLIAM MURRAY (active 1800-1807)

A Foxhound outside a Kennel signed 'W. Murray Pinxt 1803' (lower center) oil on panel 61/2 x 8 in. (16.5 x 20.2 cm.) PROVENANCE E. M. W. Griffith. with Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., 1964. LITERATURE J. Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings in the Paul Mellon Collection 1655-1867, 1978, p. 226, no. 244. NOTES Little is known about the career of William Murray and his work is mainly known through a group of pictures, chiefly small portraits of hounds, that were formerly with Ackermann.