Attributed to Robert White

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1645-1703

Portrait of a Man (Earl of Feversham?)

1690

Graphite, some stumping, on vellum.

4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches (114 x 82 mm)

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

2004.49:13

Notes:

Fol. 4, no. 13 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Attributed to Robert White in handlist of album.

Inscription:

Signed and dated at right center in graphite: RWhite - / delin - 1690; inscribed in decorative border at lower left: Robt. [period under the "t"] White; overwritten in pen and black ink: Rob White; in decorative border at lower right in graphite: delin & sculp[?] (partially effaced); overwritten in black ink: delin; in decorative border at bottom, in graphite: Earl of Feversham?.; on album leaf at center right in graphite: signed / R. White / dated 1690; beneath this in another hand: [Robt White] [?] (effaced); on album leaf beyond lower right corner of decorative border: ? if not Lothlingow [?] / ? or Feversham.

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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