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18th century

L. Morley Esq. as a Butcher

Point of brush and black and gray wash over graphite, some pen and black ink, on paper.

12 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches (318 x 238 mm)

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

2004.49:45

Notes:

Fol. 27, no. 45 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray. Sitter identified as L. Morley Esq. in handlist of album.

Inscription:

Inscribed in decorative mount at upper center in pen and brown ink: L. Morley Esqr. of Halsted in Essex. drawn at Down: Hall by his own desire in this character.; beyond decorative mount at upper right in graphite: 45; on verso at lower left: He sat to Sir Godfrey Kneller for his Picture, in the background of which is a / Butcher, carrying a sheep. - it was engraved by Simon - [?]id the Print [illegible] me R.B.; beneath this: He was first a Butcher. afterwa[rds] [effaced] in England. he used to kill a hog every [illegible] [cut off].

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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