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 (William Walker?)

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Attributed to George Vertue
1684-1756

Portrait of a Man (William Walker?)

1727
11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (302 x 220 mm)
Graphite and brush and gray and pink wash, the background brushed in with a buff-colored wash, laid down on paper.
2004.49:40

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

Notes
Fol. 22, no. 40 in the Bull Album.
Not in Fairfax Murray.
Attributed to George Vertue in handlist of album.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed (?), dated, and inscribed at lower left in pen and brown ink: GV del.; at lower center: William Walker. aged 105.; at lower right in graphite: Wimpole Aug.23 1727 (overwritten in pen and brown ink); in decorative border at upper right in graphite: 40; beyond decorative border at lower right: G. Vertú.
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