Charles Oliver R.E. Murray

Charles Murray kept a studio above a cobbler’s shop on London’s Fleet Street, where he sketched in ink while the shoemaker hammered soles below. He loved Gothic arches and the way morning light sliced through them, turning stone into lace. Look up his print of Canterbury Cathedral’s cloister, notice how he lets the shadows pool like spilled ink, or how a single figure in the foreground measures the height of the vaults with his stride.