A Muslim at Prayer
Oil Painting
1841 (painted)
1841 (painted)
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On the back, a female figure study
Object details
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| Title | A Muslim at Prayer (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on board |
| Brief description | Oil painting, 'A Muslim at Prayer', William James Müller, 1841 |
| Physical description | On the back, a female figure study |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed and dated W Muller. 1841; inscribed on the back Sketched in Egypt from life WMuller. and illegibly on an old label attached to the back |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - `Bt PHW [Prue Heathcote-Williams], July 1974, £52'. |
| Historical context | Sketched in Egypt, probably at Luxor, 1839, and probably used for the right hand figure in his Prayers in the Desert, oil on canvas, arched top, 100.5 x 180 cm., signed and dated W. Muller 1843, in the City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham (2529/85) and exhibited at the RA in 1843 (547): see City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, Catalogue of Paintings, 1961, p.106; N. N. Solly, Memoir of the Life of William James Müller, 1875, pp.134 (reproduced), 162, 326, 329, 333, 346; and Searight Archive. A smaller version (67.2 x 106 cm.), either a study for the painting or a copy, was sold at Christie's, 28.11.80 (116). |
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| Accession number | SD.690 |
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| Record created | April 23, 2007 |
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