Provenance
Bought from Reynolds in 1781 by William Lock.
William Smith, by 1813.
Alexander Baring, by 1833.
Lord Ashburton, by 1847; Christie's, 18 July 1924, lot 89 (140 gns. to Agnew).
with Agnews, London, from whom acquired on 16 February 1925 by
Robert C. Vose.
with Vose Gallery, Boston.
Mrs. Edwin S. Webster, Boston in 1939, and by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Art Union, 1847, p. 124.
E. Hamilton, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. from 1755 to 1822, new ed., enlarged, London, 1884, p. 141.
A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1899-1901, III, pp. 1131-1132, 1174; IV, p. 1451, 1480 YY.
W. Armstrong, Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1900, p. 238.
A.L. Baldry, Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1903, p. xiii.
M. Cormack, 'The Ledgers of Sir Joshua Reynolds', The Walpole Society, XLII, 1970, p. 158.
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, p. 583, fig. 1578; II, p. 509, no. 2011.
Exhibited
London, British Institution, Pictures by the late Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1813, no. 51.
London, British Institution, 1833, no. 38.
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