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Attributed to William Faithorne
1616-1691
Portrait of a Man (Sir William Read?)
Graphite, some stumping, on vellum.
4 1/2 x 3 5/16 inches (114 x 85 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
2004.49:9
Notes:
Fol. 3, no. 9 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray. Attributed to William Faithorne in handlist of album.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left in pen and black ink: Dr [superscript "r"][period under "r"] Read, oculist.; on verso at center in graphite: Dr [superscript "r"][period under "r"] Read. Occulist; at lower left: 3; at lower left of decorative border: Sir William; on album sheet beneath decorative border in same hand: Engraved by Faithorne; beyond upper right corner of decorative border: 9.
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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