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British School
18th century
Portrait of a Man (Mathew Prior?)
Red chalk, black chalk, with white chalk, on cream paper prepared with a peach-colored wash.
12 3/8 x 8 inches (315 x 204 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
2004.49:54
Notes:
Fol. 34, no. 54 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Watermark: foolscap.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower edge in pen and black ink: Mathew Prior . from the late Dutchess of Portland's Collection, sold after her death.; on verso at lower right: 7/0, beneath this: 157; beneath this: No [o superscript] 43 [illegible] 2579; on album leaf at lower right of drawing in graphite: after ptg by JRichardson.
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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