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Attributed to Robert White
1645-1703
Portrait of a Man (John Shower?)
Graphite, some stumping, on vellum.
4 1/2 x 3 3/16 inches (114 x 81 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
2004.49:6
Notes:
Fol. 2, no. 6 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Attributed to Robert White in handlist of album.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left in pen and black ink: J. Shower.; on verso in center in graphite: J. Shower; on verso at lower edge in graphite: J Shower.; in decorative border at lower edge and continuing beneath decorative border in same hand: John Shower Dissenting Minister of / Lewin St [period under the "t"] old Jewry / brother of the recorder of [?] / Sir Barth. Shower / by White; on album sheet beyond upper right corner of decorative border: 6.
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.
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