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British School
18th century
Portrait of a Gentleman Seated with His Dog by a Window
Brush and gray and black wash over black chalk, some red chalk and graphite, on parchment.
11 5/8 x 9 inches (294 x 229 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
2004.49:46
Notes:
Fol. 28, no. 46 in the Bull Album.
Mounted directly to album leaf; lacks decorative border.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso at lower right in graphite: Vertue; on album leaf at upper center: What["what" is underlined] is this!; at upper right: 46.
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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