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Jonathan Richardson
1665-1745
Portrait of a Lady (Mrs. Renolds Fiske?)
6 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches (167 x 124 mm)
Metalpoint, some graphite, on vellum; double framing line in graphite.
2004.49:23
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Fol. 9, no. 23 in the Bull Album.
Attributed to Jonathan Richardson, Sr., in Fairfax Murray; confirmed by Carol Gibson-Wood ("Jonathan Richardson as a Draftsman," Master Drawings 32, no. 3 [1994], pp. 203-229), who suggests that the sitter may be one of Richardson's daughters.
Attributed to Jonathan Richardson, Sr., in Fairfax Murray; confirmed by Carol Gibson-Wood ("Jonathan Richardson as a Draftsman," Master Drawings 32, no. 3 [1994], pp. 203-229), who suggests that the sitter may be one of Richardson's daughters.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left in metalpoint: Ap: 24. 1732; on verso at center in graphite: 24 April 1732; on album sheet beyond lower right corner of decorative border: Q.; beyond upper left corner of decorative border: x 15; beyond upper right corner of decorative border: 23; beneath drawing: Mrs Renolds Fiske. Collector's mark of Jonathan Richardson Sr. inscribed at lower left in metalpoint, R., stamped at lower right in black ink and on verso at lower right.
Associated names
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
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.
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, 21, repr.
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