Richard Bull

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Richard Bull

1725-1806

Original Portraits, Drawn by Robert White, Sir James Thornhill, George Vertue &c.

Drawings mostly in graphite and brush and wash, some in metalpoint, on paper and vellum, mounted on paper album leaves, many within a drawn decorative border in pen and brown and black ink and brush and brown wash.

Album: 15 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches (379 x 268 mm); leaf: 14 9/16 x 10 1/4 inches (370 x 260 mm)

2004.49:1-96

Notes:

Drawings mounted several to a page, most with inscriptions on the album leaf identifying sitter and artist. Inscriptions in several hands. Leaves numbered 45 and 57 through 85 are blank, some with remants of glue from hinges. Drawings numbered on album leaf beyond upper right corner of decorative border. Drawings published in Fairfax Murray 1905-1912, III, are numbered sequentially, each with an x, beyond the upper left corner of the decorative border. Richard Bull was a collector and correspondent of Horace Walpole.

Provenance:

Richard Bull, Ongar, Essex (Lugt 314 and Lugt S. 314); Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca. 1840-ca. 1892), London and Paris; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 9-13 December 1889, lot 1146; Charles Fairfax Murray, London; from whom purchased in 1910 by J. Pierpont Morgan (no mark; see Lugt 1509).

Associated names:

Bull, Richard, 1725-1806, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

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

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