William James Muller — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works13

Previous Sales

Bonhams

William James Müller (British, 1812-1845) Portrait of an Egyptian artist

£3,200 ($4k USD)

Mar 2026

Christie's

The entrance to the small temple at Medinet Habu, Luxor, Egypt ( recto ); and with subsidiary sketches ( verso )

£6,000 ($8k USD)

Dec 2010

Christie's

A young Turkish Boy, Xanthus, Asia Minor

Christie's

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Twelve landscape sketches

£750 ($990 USD)

Dec 2007

Christie's

A precarious journey

£1,075 ($1k USD)

Feb 2004

Christie's

Sunrise over Downland

£1,410 ($2k USD)

Sep 2003

Christie's

An wooded landscape with sheep

£3,346 ($4k USD)

Jun 2003

Christie's

Hampstead Heath, the Bird Trap

£2,151 ($3k USD)

Jun 2003

Christie's

Horace's villa at Tivoli

$7,637

Apr 2001

Christie's

A Venetian capriccio with the Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute

Christie's

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Other Museum Acquisitions12

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Umbrella Pines in the Villa Borghese, Rome

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2020 · Accession 2020.240 · Watercolor over graphite underdrawing, with stippling, washes and reductive techniques, selectively coated with gum arabic

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2020

Study of Trees by a Mountain Stream

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2017 · Accession 2017.238 · Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) over graphite, with reductive techniques, stopping out, and gum arabic on blue-gray card

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2017

A Woodland Scene at Dusk (recto); A Study of Trees and Foliage (verso)

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2017 · Accession 2017.237a, b · Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) over graphite, with reductive techniques, stopping out, and gum arabic on blue-gray paper

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2017

Müller's Sketches of the Age of Francis 1st

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1991 · Accession 1991.1073.21 · Book: lithographs with tint stones

Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1916, transferred from the Library

Standing Turkish Youth

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1971 · Accession 1971.66.5 · Watercolor over graphite

Rogers Fund, 1971

Waterfall with Fisherman

Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1955 · Accession T00044 · Oil paint on canvas

Purchased 1955

Compton Dando, Somerset

Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1908 · Accession N02387 · Watercolour on paper