Muhrman lived in the United States from 1878 to 1883, when he settled in London, where he became a follower of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, specializing in moody and poetic pastels.
Reporting on an exhibition at the New Gallery in Regent Street, London by the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, the Evening Post, New York City, referred to the "most tragic Impressions of Meissen In pastel by Mr. Muhrman" [REF].