George Vertue

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George Vertue

1684-1756

Portrait of Jan Griffier

Graphite on paper; divided into quadrants in graphite; framing line in graphite.

5 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (146 x 120 mm)

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

2004.49:28

Notes:

Fol. 11, no. 28 in the Bull Album.
After Gerard Soest, called Zoust (Dutch, ca. 1600-1681 London). Gerard Zoust was a Dutch artist active in England. When Vertue made this drawing, Zoust's picture was in the collection of Horace Walpole (British, 1717-1797) at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London. Jan Griffier (Dutch, 1656-1718) was a Dutch artist active in England. Not in Fairfax Murray.

Inscription:

Inscribed by Horace Walpole at lower left in brown ink, Zoust p., at lower center, Griffiera, at lower right, G.V. del.

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:

Soest, Gerard, approximately 1600-1681, after.
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:

Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in The Pierpont Morgan Library, forthcoming.

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