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After Thomas Phillips
1770-1845
Portrait of William Blake
Watercolor on paper, trimmed to an arch at top.
8 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches (222 x 175 mm)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1903.
2004.33
Notes:
Copy after the portrait by Phillips in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Purchased with twenty-one original drawings by William Blake executed for Thomas Butts, ca. 1805-10, illustrating the Book of Job.
Provenance:
Thomas Butts; Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Lord Houghton (1809-1885); Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, 4th Baron and Marquess of Crewe; Crewe sale, London, Sotheby's, March 1903, lot 17; purchased through Quaritch by J. Pierpont Morgan, 30 June 1903.
Associated names:
Butts, Thomas, 1759-1846, former owner.
Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron, 1809-1885, former owner.
Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquis of, 1858-1945, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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