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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]

Margaret Murray Cookesley
Born1844 (1844)
Died1927 (aged 82–83)
NationalityBritish
Circe resplendens (1913)
Circe resplendens (1913)

Life and career


As reported by Clara Erskine Clement, Cookesley visited Constantinople where the sultan commissioned a portrait of his son; he was so pleased with this that he asked her to paint his wives as well, but she did not have time for this commission. She was awarded the Order of the Chefakat and the Medaille des Beaux-Arts in the Ottoman Empire.[4]

Her Circe resplendens (1913) is in the collection of Glasgow Museums.[5]


Work


Some of her paintings are held in collections, including the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath (Frederick Harrison, Author); Towneley Hall, Burnley (The Gambler's Wife); the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Cleopatra); and the Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (The Egg Seller); and Cartwright Hall, Bradford (Rich and rare were the gems she wore).[1][2] However, Cookesley's work is poorly represented in art museums. Yet, her paintings regularly appear in the catalogues of leading auction houses such as Sotheby's and Christie's. Scholar, Julia Kuehn, has explained this by pointing out that Cookesley's work was intended for a mass market rather than as a form of high art. Thus, her paintings entered private collections where they continue to be traded among collectors.[6] She painted numerous harem scenes.[7]


Selected works



References


  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.
  5. "Circe resplendens". The Athenaeum. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  6. Kuehn, J., "Visual Hybridity: Margaret Murray Cookesley's Orientalist Aestheticism," Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, vol. 74, 2011, pp 169–196
  7. Lewis, R., “Women Orientalist Artists: Diversity, Ethnography, Interpretation”. Women: A Cultural Review, vol. 6.no. 1, 1995, pp 91–106.
  8. Reina Lewis, Gendering Orientalism (London and New York: Routledge, 1996). Plate 23 [between 126 and 127], URL: http://journals.openedition.org/cve/docannexe/image/1375/img-3.jpg


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Margaret Murray Cookesley ou Murray-Cookesley (1844-1927), née Margaret Deborah Cookesley, est une peintre anglaise[1],[2]. Elle prend le nom de Murray lors de son mariage[1],[2]. Elle a voyagé au Moyen-Orient et peint des scènes orientales à l'huile et à l'aquarelle. Elle a exposé à la Royal Academy et à la Society of Women Artists[3],[4].


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