Flemish School
18th or 19th century
Profile Portrait of a Hook-Nosed Man (Richard Suett?)
18th or 19th century
6 11/16 x 6 1/4 inches (170 x 159 mm)
Oil on canvas.
2013.9:13
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Originally on page 13 of the Braham Album compiled by C.B. Braham, a musician, and presented to his sister Frances Countess Waldegrave.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the album page, in graphite, "Suett / by / "; in brown ink, "Nollekens", and again in graphite, "son" (crossed out) and above it written, "Father of the great sculptor his style resembled that of Watteau".
Associated names
Anonymous, Flemish School, 18th cent.
Anonymous, Flemish School, 19th cent.
Nollekens, Josef Frans, 1702-1748, Formerly attributed to.
Braham, Charles Bampfylde, 1823-1884, former owner.
Waldegrave, Frances Elizabeth Anne Braham, Countess, 1821-1879, former owner.
Lee, Edward, 1833-1904, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Anonymous, Flemish School, 19th cent.
Nollekens, Josef Frans, 1702-1748, Formerly attributed to.
Braham, Charles Bampfylde, 1823-1884, former owner.
Waldegrave, Frances Elizabeth Anne Braham, Countess, 1821-1879, former owner.
Lee, Edward, 1833-1904, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 165, no. 345, repr.
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