MURRAY, Sir David

1849 - 1933

David Murray was born at Glasgow on 29 January 1849, son of James Murray, a shoemaker. David Murray was educated at Glasgow and, whilst working for two mercantile firms, studied in evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art under Robert Greenlees (1820-1894) and some 10 years later, about 1875, devoted himself as a full-time landscape painter. Elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1881, moving to London the following year, where he was an immediate success with his painting 'My Love has gone a-Sailing' exhibited in 1884 was purchased by the Chantrey Trustees for the Tate Gallery. About 1886 he broadened his horizons and travelled to the continent where he completed a series of landscapes in Picardy and others around Venice and the Italian lakes, but most of his work was done in the United Kingdom. In 1905 Murray was elected a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1905 and was also a member of the Glasgow Art Club and exhibited in the club's annual exhibitions and in 1917 elected president of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and knighted the following year. During his time in London, he occupied a studio of John Everett Millais (1829-1896) at 1 Langham Chambers, Portland Place, London and exhibited an oil at the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1923 'Constable's Mill and Locks, Flatford'. Sir David Murray was of 1 Langham Chambers, All Souls Place, Portland Place, London when he died on 14 November 1933, he was unmarried.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 108 West George Street, Glasgow
1875 114 The Vale of Coruisk, Isle of Skye
from 2 West Regent Street, Glasgow
1876 155 'where the work is dark'
1877 1024 The gloamin' o' the year
1878 57 The Glow before Decay
         1029 The lone Shore
1879 135 Wrack gathering in the Hebrides
         391 Mongold Worzels
1880, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934

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Works by This Artist