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M. Murray Cookesley Oil/Card Lady Blowing Bubbles
We are delighted to bring to the market this delightful Oil on Card laid to Panel by the artist Margaret Murray Cookseley, who signed the painting in tiny letters to the lower right hand corner. The painting depicts a Romanesque lady, clad in draperies blowing bubbles through a pipe. She wears her curly copper coloured hair caught at the nape of her neck. Her gown has an underskirt of bronze fabric, split at the sides and with a band of gold fabric around the edges. Her diaphonous overdress is in white, with a gold fringe around the bottom and the fabric is covered in tiny gold beads. Her feet are bare She has a gold bracelet on one arm and an open bangle on the other. She is laying on a green couch in front of a stone wall. This is a very accomplished piece of work by this celebrated artist and much in keeping with the subject matter of the body of her work..
Margaret Murray Cookesley was born Margaret Deborah Garland in early April 1837 at Leeson Manor, Near Swanage, Dorset. She was a member of the wealthy Garland family from Poole. She acquired her well known name by taking her husband's second name Murray and his surname Cookesley upon her marriage in 1866. Her husband was the son of a curate and a retired Captain who served in the British Army between 1855-1860 in both the 97th Foot and the 22nd Foot. His name was Edward Murray Cookesley 1837-1916.
We have read, but cannot verify, that she trained in Brussels under Leroy and Gallais and studied at the RA Schools in South Kensington. She was an Orientalist, portraitist and landscape artist. She was elected an Associate Member of the Society of Women Artists in 1899.
She travelled to the Middle East, Gibraltar and Turkey. She visited Contantinople (Istanbul) where the Sultan commissioned a portrait of his son. He was so pleased with it he asked her to paint his wives as well, but she didn't have time to undertake these commissions. She was awarded the 'Order of the Chefakat' and the 'Medaille des Beaux Arts' in the Ottoman Empire.
There are six of her works in the National Collection. Glasgow Museum has 'Circe Resplendens', the Walker AG in Liverpool has 'Cleopatra, Sheffield Museums have 'The Egg Seller', Cartwright Hall, Bradford has 'Rich and Rare are the Gems she wore', the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath have a portrait by her, and Townley Hall Burnley hold 'The Gambler's Wife'. There are many examples of her work that can be viewed on google images.
She exhibited as follows: Walker AG,31, Royrla Academy 24, Royal Oil Painters Institute 39, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours 18, Royal Scottish Academy 1, Society of Women Artists 9, Manchester AG 1, Tooley Gallery 1.
She is listed in The Dictionary of British Artists (Collectors' Club), The Dictionary of Victorian Painters by Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of British Artists by G. W. Waters, and the Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920
She and her husband must have travelled a great deal because they seemed to have missed the Census for most of their married life, but in the entry for 1911, they were living at 7 Cromsell Place, London SW, which oddly enough was the home of the Art Fund for some years and is known as Millais House, as this is where he had his studio. It bears a Blue Plaque to John Everett Millais, Francis Bacon, a photographer called Emil Otto Hoppe and the plaque mentions that other artists also lived here. Margaret's husband died in 1916 in Bath and Margaret herself died at 12 Darlington Place, in Bath on 8th February, 1927. They do not appear to have had children.
The painting is in its original slip and is newly framed in an ornate 2 1/2" gitl frame, which suits it very well. It will be supplied with new brass hangers, new brass picture wire and will be ready to hang.
Image size: 15 1/8" x 8 1/8" - 38.4cm x 20.65cm
Frame size: 20 1/4" x 13 1/4" - 51.45cm x 33.65cm
Medium: Oils on card, laid on chamberred mahogany panel
Condition: Very good. The surface is clean and there is no paint loss, craquelure or damage. There is one small area where the card has lifted slightly from the surface of the panel, but this is not really noticeable.
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Margaret Murray Cookesley was born Margaret Deborah Garland in early April 1837 at Leeson Manor, Near Swanage, Dorset. She was a member of the wealthy Garland family from Poole. She acquired her well known name by taking her husband's second name Murray and his surname Cookesley upon her marriage in 1866. Her husband was the son of a curate and a retired Captain who served in the British Army between 1855-1860 in both the 97th Foot and the 22nd Foot. His name was Edward Murray Cookesley 1837-1916.
We have read, but cannot verify, that she trained in Brussels under Leroy and Gallais and studied at the RA Schools in South Kensington. She was an Orientalist, portraitist and landscape artist. She was elected an Associate Member of the Society of Women Artists in 1899.
She travelled to the Middle East, Gibraltar and Turkey. She visited Contantinople (Istanbul) where the Sultan commissioned a portrait of his son. He was so pleased with it he asked her to paint his wives as well, but she didn't have time to undertake these commissions. She was awarded the 'Order of the Chefakat' and the 'Medaille des Beaux Arts' in the Ottoman Empire.
There are six of her works in the National Collection. Glasgow Museum has 'Circe Resplendens', the Walker AG in Liverpool has 'Cleopatra, Sheffield Museums have 'The Egg Seller', Cartwright Hall, Bradford has 'Rich and Rare are the Gems she wore', the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath have a portrait by her, and Townley Hall Burnley hold 'The Gambler's Wife'. There are many examples of her work that can be viewed on google images.
She exhibited as follows: Walker AG,31, Royrla Academy 24, Royal Oil Painters Institute 39, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours 18, Royal Scottish Academy 1, Society of Women Artists 9, Manchester AG 1, Tooley Gallery 1.
She is listed in The Dictionary of British Artists (Collectors' Club), The Dictionary of Victorian Painters by Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of British Artists by G. W. Waters, and the Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920
She and her husband must have travelled a great deal because they seemed to have missed the Census for most of their married life, but in the entry for 1911, they were living at 7 Cromsell Place, London SW, which oddly enough was the home of the Art Fund for some years and is known as Millais House, as this is where he had his studio. It bears a Blue Plaque to John Everett Millais, Francis Bacon, a photographer called Emil Otto Hoppe and the plaque mentions that other artists also lived here. Margaret's husband died in 1916 in Bath and Margaret herself died at 12 Darlington Place, in Bath on 8th February, 1927. They do not appear to have had children.
The painting is in its original slip and is newly framed in an ornate 2 1/2" gitl frame, which suits it very well. It will be supplied with new brass hangers, new brass picture wire and will be ready to hang.
Image size: 15 1/8" x 8 1/8" - 38.4cm x 20.65cm
Frame size: 20 1/4" x 13 1/4" - 51.45cm x 33.65cm
Medium: Oils on card, laid on chamberred mahogany panel
Condition: Very good. The surface is clean and there is no paint loss, craquelure or damage. There is one small area where the card has lifted slightly from the surface of the panel, but this is not really noticeable.
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Category Antique Pictures / Engravings / Art
> Antique Oil Paintings
Period 1910s Antiques
Material Oil Painting on Panel
Origin English
Artist Margaret Murray Cookesley
Item code as237a2054
Status For Sale
£585.00 
$775.13
€696.44
$775.13
€696.44
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