Literature

Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 60

Provenance

the artist, until died 1802
Reverend John Romney, Whitestock Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria, 1802-died 1832
Elizabeth Romney, Whitestock Hall, 1832-died 1893
her estate sale, Christie's, London, 24-25 May 1894, nr. 182 to Agnew
with Agnew, London, in 1894 sold to S. Philips
S. Philips, from 1894
Mr. and Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, New York, by 1904-his death 1908
Maria DeWitt (Mrs. Morris K.) Jesup, New York, 1908-died 1914
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, 1914
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Iconclass

48B3 Portrait, self-portrait of artist

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 15.30.37

Other works by George Romney

Lady Broughton
1770/73

Sir William Hamilton
1783

Charlotte, lady Milnes
1788-92

Lady Arabella Ward
1783-88

Henrietta, Countess of Warwick, and Her Children
1787-89