Richard Wilson

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Richard Wilson
1713-1782
Portrait of Thomas Jenkins (1722-1798)
Black and white chalk, on green-gray paper.
10 3/4 x 7 13/16 inches (272 x 198 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 42

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Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, "Jenkings"; numbered in pencil, "387/6"; inscribed below, "Locks sale 1821" and "Wilson del".

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William Lock; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 May 1821, probably part of lot 387; James (according to Fairfax Murray); A. W. Thibaudeau; his sale, London, Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, 9 December 1889, lot 1142; 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.
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Lock, William, 1767-1847, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 42, repr.

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