Attributed to Robert White

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1645-1703

Portrait of a Man (Robert Knox?)

Graphite, some stumping, on vellum.

4 1/2 x 3 5/16 inches (114 x 84 mm)

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

2004.49:3

Notes:

Fol. 1, no. 3 in the Bull Album.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left in pen and black ink: Captain Knox; at lower center in graphite, partly effaced: Capt. [period under "t"] Knox; (signed with initials?) at lower right: RW.; on verso in center in graphite: Capt. [period under "t"] Knox; at lower right of decorative border in graphite: R. White Fect. [period under "t"]; on album sheet beneath decorative border in graphite: Captain Robert Knox born about 1641 Cousin / to Strype the historian - Imprisoned 19 1/2 years / in Ceylon of which place he published / the first account; beyond upper left corner of decorative border: x 3; beyond upper right corner of decorative border: 3.

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, 12, repr.

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