Abstract
Charles Fairfax Murray, painter, collector and dealer, was one of the outside experts variously employed by the South Kensington Museum under the directorship of Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen. The reconstruction of his dealings with the Museum as agent and vendor in the late 1880s and early 1890s throws light on the growth of the art collections and institutional development of the Museum in a period characterized by public criticism in Britain and increasing competition from the new European museums of applied art. In particular they reveal Murray's hitherto little‐known importance for the appraisal and study of early Italian maiolica.
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