Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Portrait of a Man (George Berkeley?)

Image not available
British School
18th century

Portrait of a Man (George Berkeley?)

11 5/8 x 9 5/16 inches (294 x 235 mm), oval
Black chalk, with smudging, on cream paper.
2004.49:36

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

Notes
Fol. 18, no. 36 in the Bull Album.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, (Strasbourg lily), fragment.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso at center in graphite: Geo. Berkeley Bp of Cloyn / bur. 1734 and overwritten in pen and brown ink: Geo. Berkeley Bisp Cloyn / 1734; beyond decorative border at lower center in graphite: George Berkeley, bp. of Cloyne, 1685-1753.
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department