early life and education charles fairfax murray, a renowned english painter, dealer, collector, benefactor, and art historian, was born in 1849 in bow, near london. he grew up in sudbury, suffolk, where he studied drawing, possibly under thomas gainsborough's great nephew, gainsborough dupont. artistic career at the age of 12, murray was employed in the drawing office of the railway entrepreneurs peto & betts and was taken into sir sam…