page_title: Works of Elizabeth Murray
section_title: Church patronage
hierarchical_section_title: Works of Elizabeth Murray / Selected paintings / Church patronage
caption_attribution_description: Español: Acuarela de Elizabeth Murray. Se encuentre en el V&amp;A Museum of Childhood Bethnal Green (Londres). English: Watercolour of Elizabeth Murray. It is in V&amp;A Museum of Childhood Bethnal Green (London).
context_page_description: Elizabeth Murray, born Elizabeth Heaphy, was a British watercolourist. She primarily painted portraits and landscapes of the Canary Islands, where she lived for ten years. She was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and she founded The Society of Female Artists in London.
  Murray's father was Thomas Heaphy, also a watercolour painter. She first learned to paint from him, and they travelled and painted together. She continued to travel and live across the world, and paint scenes and portraits from these places: in particular, Rome, Morocco, the Canary Islands, and New England. She married Henry John Murray, a British consul whom she met when living in Morocco, and moved with him as he was assigned to the Canary Islands.
  José Luis García Pérez has pointed out that it is difficult to know the exact dates Murray's paintings were created, and that because of her travels it is likely she sketched the initial drawings and then took more time to finish them.
context_section_description: Church patronage depicts a group of three people: two women on the sides, one selling tickets for a bullfight and the other selling Christian relics, and in the centre a fat priest reading a book and ignoring the women. The girl selling tickets is holding a poster announcing the bullfight, which is equivalent to the edicts that Murray included in the Italian scenes she painted.
  The composition of this painting is similar to her other works: the priest makes up a central vertical axis, and both women are parallel to it. The colour of the painting is soft in tone, although but this highlights the intensity of the chestnut in the ticket seller's dress and the blue and pink flowers in her hair.
caption: Church patronage
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