Attributed to Robert White

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Attributed to Robert White
1645-1703
Portrait of a Man (Thomas Tryon?)
Graphite, some stumping, on vellum.
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches (114 x 82 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
2004.49:11
Notes: 

Fol. 3, no. 11 in the Bull Album.
Attributed to Robert White in Fairfax Murray.

Inscription: 

Inscribed at lower left in pen and black ink: Thos. [period under the "s"] Tryon.; on verso at center in graphite: Thos Tryon; at lower center of decorative border: Merchant of London Engraved by ?; on album sheet beneath decorative border in same hand: Litterati & enthusiast; beyond upper left corner of decorative border: x 8; beyond upper right corner: 11.

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, 13, repr.

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