Attributed to Robert White

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1645-1703

Portrait of a Man (Colonel John Beaumont?)

Graphite.

4 7/16 x 3 1/4 inches (113 x 83 mm)

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

2004.49:14

Notes:

Fol. 4, no. 14 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Attributed Robert White in handlist of album.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left in pen and brown ink: Col. Beaumont.; at lower left in graphite: Col Beaumont (partially effaced); at lower center: [Col Beaumont], effaced; at lower right, RW; on verso at center, Col Beamont; in decorative border in lower center, (signed); on album leaf at right: Colonel John Beaumont / one of the 6 Porstmouth / captains in the Duke [?] / of Gerxxx Rep? / cashiered [?] in 1688 / for refusing to admit / Irishmen in their / companies - They / moved to Portsmouth / and declared for / the Prince of Daup[?] / See the print by / White; beyond upper right corner of decorative border: 14.

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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