Margaret Murray Cookesley

Margaret Murray Cookesley
Born
Margaret Deborah Cookesley

1844 (1844)
Died1927 (aged 82–83)
NationalityBritish
Signature
Circe resplendens (1913)

Margaret Murray Cookesley or Murray-Cookesley (1844–1927), born Margaret Deborah Cookesley, took the name Murray upon marriage, and was an English painter.[1][2] She traveled to the Middle East and painted oriental scenes in oils and water colours. She exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Society of Women Artists.[3][4]

  1. ^ Wright, Christopher (2006). British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale UP. p. 264. ISBN 9780300117301.
  2. ^ "Margaret Deborah Cookesley". ArtUK. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Margaret Murray Cookesley (1850 - 1927)". Artspawn. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  4. ^ Kuehn, Julia (Autumn 2011). "Visual Hybridity: Margaret Murray Cookesley's Orientalist Aestheticism". Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens. 74 (74 Automne): 169–196. doi:10.4000/cve.1375. Retrieved 7 March 2018.