
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
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Head of UK and Ireland

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Provenance
With The Leicester Galleries, London
Miss Swan
With Ewan Mundy Fine Art, Glasgow, where acquired by
Professors Sir Kenneth and Lady Noreen Murray
Exhibited
London, The Leicester Galleries, Watercolours from Nature by C.R.W. Nevinson, March-April 1932, cat.no.94
Professor Sir Kenneth Murray FRS FRSE FRCPath (30 December 1930–7 April 2013) and his wife Lady Noreen Elizabeth Murray (née Parker) CBE, FRS FRSE (26 February 1935–12 May 2011) were both molecular biologists. They and their team developed the vaccine against hepatitis B, the first genetically-engineered vaccine approved for human use. Together they founded the Darwin Trust of Edinburgh, a charity supporting young biologists in their doctoral studies. This charity, of which Sir Kenneth was Chairman, will benefit from the sale of this lot.