Murray (C.Fairfax) A Selection from the Collection of Drawings by

Murray (C.Fairfax) A Selection from the Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters..., plates, original half morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, joints rubbed, privately printed, 1904 § Borenius (Tancred) A Catalogue of the Pictures, etc. at 18 Kensington Palace Gardens…collected by Viscount and Viscountess Lee of Fareham, 2 vol., signed presentation copy from Viscount Lee to his great-nephew, plates, some colour and mounted, original half vellum, roan labels, t.e.g., others uncut, vol.1 slightly soiled, privately printed, 1923-26 § Benson (Robert & Evelyn) Catalogue of Italian Pictures at 16, South Street, Park Lane, London and Buckhurst in Suffolk, presentation copy from Robert Benson to Charles D.R.Williamson with inscriptions in Latin & Greek on front pastedown, light foxing, original cloth, spine rubbed, privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1914, all with bookplate of Charles Sebag-Montefiore, 4to (4) *** Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919) was a Pre-Raphaelite painter, dealer, and collector who sold or donated many of his Old Master and later paintings to various art galleries in England. This collection of drawings he sold to J.Pierpont Morgan for a sum roughly equivalent to $4,000,000 today. Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham (1868-1947), diplomat, politician and patron of the arts donated his house Chequers, and its entire contents, to the nation for the use of the prime minister. The present catalogues describe his second collection, begun in 1921 following his departure from Chequers, most of which was bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute which he had helped to found. The Benson collection was bought en bloc by the dealer Joseph Duveen and dispersed amongst American collectors.

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