Versatile painter, muralist, illustrator and teacher who in the 1950s and 1960s taught theatre design at Regent Street Polytechnic, among his pupils the artist Ellen Graubart. Fred Murray Pearcey attended Goldsmiths’ College, the Royal Academy Schools and Bristol University. Early in his career he was official artist to the Canadian Exhibition Commission and he also illustrated a number of scientific books. These included Sir John Murray’s The depths of the ocean, first published in 1912, and The ocean, 1913. Pearcey exhibited at the RA, RWA, RSA and Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He was a member of the Bristol Savages from 1923–30, when he resigned. Pearcey lived in London for some years.