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Bust-length Portrait of a Woman (Queen Mary?)

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British School
18th century

Bust-length Portrait of a Woman (Queen Mary?)

5 x 4 3/16 inches (128 x 107 mm), oval
Graphite, some stumping, on vellum.
2004.49:53

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Fol. 33, no. 53 in the Bull Album.
Sitter identified in Fairfax Murray as "Mary, queen of William III."
Mounted directly to album leaf; lacks decorative border.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on album leaf to lower right of drawing: queen Mary; beneath this in another hand: by F. Forster; at upper left: x 29 about[?]; at upper right: 53.
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, III, 18, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department