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William Blake
1757-1827
Head of a Young Man in Profile
Pencil, on paper.
7 15/16 x 5 15/16 inches (201 x 150 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Robert Halsband.
1986.40
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Watermark: none.
Page eighty-six of the dismembered Blake-Varley sketchbook of 1819.
Provenance:
(Of sketchbook) John Varley; William Mulready; his sale, London, Christie's, 28-30 April 1864, lot 86; purchased by Kempton; Henry Buxton Forman; presented by the latter to William Bell Scott; Miss Alice Boyd, Penkill Castle, Ayrshire; upon her death in 1897 to her niece, Miss Eleanor Margaret Courtney-Boyd, Penkill Castle, Ayrshire (1946); Mr. M.D.E. Clayton-Stamm (who discovered it in Penkill Castle in 1967); sale, London, Christie's, 15 June, 1971, lot 149, repr.
Associated names:
Varley, John, 1778-1842, former owner.
Mulready, William, 1786-1863, former owner.
Kempton, former owner.
Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917, former owner.
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, former owner.
Boyd, Alice, former owner.
Courtney-Boyd, Eleanor Margaret, former owner.
Clayton-Stamm, Maxwell David Eugene, former owner.
Halsband, Robert, 1914-1989, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 319.
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