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Attributed to William Faithorne
1616-1691
Portrait of a Lady (Margaret Smith?)
Graphite and metalpoint on vellum.
4 7/8 x 3 5/8 inches (124 x 92 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
2004.49:8
Notes:
Fol. 2, no. 8 in the Bull Album.
Attributed to William Faithorne in Fairfax Murray.
Inscription:
Inscribed on album sheet beneath decorative border at center in graphite: Margaret Smith ?; and in a different hand: Faithorne; beyond upper left corner of decorative border: x 6, beyond upper right corner of decorative border: 8.
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 (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.
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, 2, repr.
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