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there, he declined, choosing rather to return to 

 his home at Seville, where he remained for the 



of his life. His eleven large paintings for 

 the convent of San Francisco brought him im- 

 mediate fame and many other commissions. 

 He founded the Academy of Seville in 1660 

 and acted as its president the first year. He 

 painted Saint Anthony of Padua several times, 

 the most famous canvas on this subject being 

 the one in the Cathedral of Seville, represent- 

 ing the monk with arms outstretched to receive 



Infant Jesus. The lilies in this painting are 

 so real that it is said the birds flying about 

 the cathedral have tried to peck at them. 



Murillo's masterpiece, the Immaculate Con- 

 ception, hangs in the Louvre. The Virgin is 

 borne upward by heavenly zephyrs. She wears 

 a flowing white robe and simple blue mantle. 

 Out of the golden light, or peeping from behind 

 soft clouds, are countless cherub faces, each 

 having a special charm and interest. A faithful 

 reproduction, much reduced in size, is shown 

 in the accompanying color plate. Among the 



t famous paintings for the almshouse at 



it Jorge are Moses Striking the Rock, Abra- 

 ham and the Angels, The Miracle of the Loaves 

 and Fishes and Saint Peter Released from 

 Prison. The Dice Players is typical of his 

 many famous presentations of Spanish children 

 of the street. 



In 1681 Murillo went to Cadiz. While there 

 he received injuries in a fall from a scaffold 



ii result 1 in his death. He was buried in 

 the Church of Santa Cruz, in Seville. Ex- 

 amples of his paintings are the treasures of the 

 great galleries of the world. A stately bronze 

 statue of him in the public plaza of Seville is 

 pointed out to all visitors, for the Spanish peo- 

 j.l<- tn ii-uiv the memory of this great master 



B.O.M. 



Consult Stirling-Maxwell's Annals of the Art- 

 tot* of Spain; Curtls's Velasquez and Murillo. 



MURRAY, mur'a, GEORGE HENBY (1861- ), 



a Canadian statesman, since 1896 premier of 



He was bora at Grand Narrows, 



N. S., and received his elementary schooling 



, but later attended Boston University. 



1S83 he was called to the bar of Nova 



Scotin, and for several years thereafter prac- 



profewion at North Sydney, N. S. 



His first appearance in public life occurred in 



1889, when ho was appoint. .1 ; , member of the 



.iin.il 1, Ki~l.it ivr council. Two years later 



signed to contest a seat in the Dominion 



I! ;sc of Commons. After his defeat for this 



seat he was reappointed to the council, and at 



the same time became a minister without port- 

 folio in the Liberal cabinet of William Stevens 

 Fielding. In 1896, when Fielding was called to 

 Ottawa to serve in the Dominion Cabinet, 

 Murray succeeded him as premier of Nova 

 Scotia. He also assumed the portfolio of pro- 

 vincial secretary. During its long sen-ice the 

 Murray government has given special atten- 

 tion to the promotion of agriculture and immi- 

 gration. In 1914 a determined effort was made 

 to force the province to adopt prohibition, but 

 Premier Murray's opposition finally led to a 

 compromise in the form of a local option law. 



MURRAY, JAMES (1719-1794), a British sol- 

 dier and colonial administrator, the first Brit- 

 ish governor of Canada. Murray was the 

 younger son of an English nobleman, and, like 

 many younger sons, entered the army when he 

 became of age, in 1740. After service in the 

 West Indies, the Netherlands and Brittany, in 

 the course of which he rose to the rank of 

 lieutenant-colonel of the Fifteenth Regiment 

 of Foot, Murray was sent to America in 1757 

 with his regiment. In the next year he com- 

 manded a brigade at the siege of Louisburg, 

 and in 1759 he was one of the three brigadiers 

 under Wolfe in the expedition against Quebec. 

 In the great battle on the Plains of Abraham 

 he commanded the left. After the British vic- 

 tory Murray was left in command of the city, 

 which he successfully defended against a su- 

 perior French army under General de LeVis. 



In 1760 the king appointed General Murray 

 governor of Quebec, and three years later, when 

 French rule formally came to an end, governor 

 of Canada. As governor Murray faced many 

 difficult problems, nearly all of which centered 

 about the relations between the English and 

 the Indians (see PONTIAC) and the English offi- 

 cial class and the French-Canadians. Murray 

 seems to have been just beyond criticism, but 

 some of his subordinates accused him of favor- 

 itism towards the French. Accordingly he was 

 recalled to England in 1766, and was even com- 

 pelled to stand trial, but was completely exon- 

 erated of any wrongdoing. From 1774 to 1781 

 he was governor of Minorca, which he sur- 

 rendered to a combined force of French and 

 Spanish troops after a seven-months' sieg* 

 tl..- latter year. He was made a general m 

 1783. 



MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841-1914), a Canadian 

 naturalist, geographer and deep-eea explorer, 

 perhaps the foremost authority of his day on 

 oceanography and marine biology. Sir John 

 was born at Cobourg, Ont., attended Victoria 



