Oil on linen, signed lower right, retaining gallery label to verso, framed.

Frame dimensions 17 1/2 x 20 3/4 in.

Private Collection, Orange County, Virginia

Lena Murray is a classically trained painter and sculptor who was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia. However, she received her first art training in New York City, where she studied sculpture at the New York Sculpture Center in Manhattan with Russian-trained Leonid Lerman and Leonid Brener. Later she continued her studies at the prestigious Repin Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in St. Petersburg, Russia.

In 2001, she was a founder and director of the Bridgeview School of Fine Arts in New York. She and her husband, John Francis Murray, now live in Orange, Virginia. They continue to train and mentor artists in the classical tradition.

Good estate condition.