Attributed to William Faithorne

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1616-1691

Portrait of a Man (Sir William Paston?)

Graphite, touches of red chalk, some stumping, on vellum.

3 7/8 x 3 1/16 inches (98 x 77 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

2004.49:2

Notes:

Fol. 1, no. 2 in the Bull Album.
Attributed to William Faithorne in Fairfax Murray.

Inscription:

Inscribed at upper center in graphite: Will.Faithorne Del; at lower left: Sir Willm. [superscript "m"][period under "m"] Paston; at lower right, in pen and black ink: WF[?] (partially effaced); at lower center of decorative border: (signed); at lower right of decorative border: by W. Faithorne; on album sheet below decorative border: Bart [superscript "t"] of Oscueod [?] & Paston high sheriff of Norfolk / & Suffolk 1636 - Travelled in Asia & Africa - father / of the 1st [superscript st] [period under st] Earl of Yarmouth - Engraved by Faithorne; beyond upper left corner of decorative border: x 2; beyond upper right corner of decorative border: 2.

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, 2, repr.

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