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British School
18th century
Bust-length Portrait of a Woman (Queen Mary?)
Graphite, some stumping, on vellum.
5 x 4 3/16 inches (128 x 107 mm), oval
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
2004.49:53
Notes:
Fol. 33, no. 53 in the Bull Album.
Sitter identified in Fairfax Murray as "Mary, queen of William III."
Mounted directly to album leaf; lacks decorative border.
Inscription:
Inscribed on album leaf to lower right of drawing: queen Mary; beneath this in another hand: by F. Forster; at upper left: x 29 about[?]; at upper right: 53.
Provenance:
Richard Bull, Ongar, Essex (Lugt 314 and Lugt S. 314); Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca. 1840-ca. 1892), London and Paris; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 9-13 December 1889, lot 1146; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 18, repr.
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