Attributed to R. Faber

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18th century

Portrait of a Man (Beau Fielding?)

Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, on vellum. Oval framing line in graphite. Miscellaneous pen trials and brushstrokes at upper right.

4 3/16 x 3 5/16 inches (116 x 84 mm), trimmed irregularly.

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

2004.49:27

Notes:

Fol. 11, no. 27 in the Bull Album.
Attributed to R. Faber in Fairfax Murray. Attributed to John Faber the Elder (The Hague?, ca. 1660-1721 Bristol) in handlist of album. Faber was a Dutch draftsman and engraver active in England.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left in graphite: Faber del; within decorative border at lower center in graphite: "Beau Fielding."; at upper left: x 18; on album leaf beyond decorative border at upper right: 27.

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.

Bibliography:

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 15, repr.

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