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Portrait of a Man in Armor (Sir Blount?)

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Attributed to David Loggan
1635-1700?

Portrait of a Man in Armor (Sir Blount?)

1679
5 1/4 x 4 7/16 inches (133 x 113 mm), oval
Graphite, some stumping, on vellum.
2004.49:17

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

Notes
Fol. 6, no. 17 in the Bull Album.
Attributed to David Loggan in Fairfax Murray.
Sitter identified as Sir Blount(?) in Fairfax Murray.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed (signed with initials?) at lower right: DM / 1679; on verso at lower center: Coll [l superscipt] [?]; in decorative border at lower center: [illegible] (effaced); at lower right: D. Loggan fect [t superscript]; on album leaf beyond decorative border at lower right: signed with / initials D.M. / dated 1679?; beyond upper left corner of decorative border: x 11; beyond upper right corner: 17; beyond lower left corner: Q. fi / Tim[?] [illegible] / [illegible].
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, 5, repr.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department