After Thomas Phillips
1770-1845
Portrait of William Blake
8 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches (222 x 175 mm)
Watercolor on paper, trimmed to an arch at top.
2004.33
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1903.
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Copy after the portrait by Phillips in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Purchased with twenty-one original drawings by William Blake executed for Thomas Butts, ca. 1805-10, illustrating the Book of Job.
Purchased with twenty-one original drawings by William Blake executed for Thomas Butts, ca. 1805-10, illustrating the Book of Job.
Associated names
Butts, Thomas, 1759-1846, former owner.
Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron, 1809-1885, former owner.
Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquis of, 1858-1945, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron, 1809-1885, former owner.
Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquis of, 1858-1945, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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