Early Life and Education Charles Fairfax Murray, a figure of remarkable complexity and influence within the British art world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was born in 1849 in Bow, a district of London near its eastern edge. His upbringing unfolded amidst the bustling industrial landscape of Victorian England, yet his early years were steeped in artistic sensibility. He spent his formative years in Sudbury, Suffolk, a rur…