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British School
18th century
Portrait of a Man in Profile. Verso: A profile portrait of the same man
Pen and brown ink over graphite on paper.
5 13/126 x 4 1/8 inches (148 x 105 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
2004.49:55
Notes:
Fol. 35, no. 55 in the Bull Album.
Mounted directly to album leaf; lacks decorative border.
Not in Fairfax Murray or handlist of album.
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left: Nirby 5[?]; at lower right, Q[illegible]b[?]; on verso at lower left in graphite: Sr [r superscript] Erasin[?] Philipps [partially covered by hinge]; on album sheet beyond lower right edge of drawing: see Grilston[?] catl.; beyond upper right edge of drawing: 55. Collector's mark of Jonathan Richardson Sr. stamped at center left.
Provenance:
Jonathan Richardson Sr. (Lugt 2183); 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:
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
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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