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Three-quarter length portrait of Sir Philip Stapleton, in armour

Maker

(artist)
1680-1720

Title

Three-quarter length portrait of Sir Philip Stapleton, in armour

Date of Production

1680 - 1728

Medium

graphite, pen and black ink, black wash on laid paper, given a paper border with brown and red ink framing lines, all laid down on a paper support

Dimensions

Height: 30.5 cm
Width: 25 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3177

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

Wanstead Collection; Howard (Covent Garden); Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); acquired from him, in exchange, by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 7

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, lower centre, only visible in raking light due to dark wash: Strasburg lily.

Inscription: Paper support (historic), Recto: on separately attached strip of paper, lower centre, brown ink: "Sir Philip Stapleton Knt."; lower right corner, graphite numbers erased or crossed out and now illegible except for “10 x […]”.

Label: Historic label, glued to new mount: brown ink, in two hands: "By Bullfinch / From a Painting / in Mr Howards Hands / in Covent Garden / From the Wanstead Collection / £5.50 / also Galstons".

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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