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John Vanderbank
1694-1739
Three Figures, with a Horse in Background (Death of a Warrior)
1719
Black chalk on paper.
8 x 6 1/8 inches (203 x 155 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 183a
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Signed and dated in pen and brown ink on verso, "John Vanderbank fecit. Anno 1719-"; inscribed on old mount on pen and brown ink at center, "V4"; at upper left, "4N / L31"; at upper right, "6N / L10"; at lower left, "631".
Provenance:
Probably George Knapton; probably by bequest to General George Morrison; presumably Knapton-Morrison sale, London, T. Philipe, 25 May-3 June 1807, probably one of two in lot 847 (to Philipe according to Miss Georgina Morrison's notations in the copy of the sale catalogue at Colnaghi); 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:
Knapton, George, former owner.
Morrison, George, General, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919 former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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