Provenance

By family descent to James Woodgate Arbuthnot
sold to Knoedler, 1922
Mrs. B.F. Jones, Jr., sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 4-5 December 1941, nr. 83
with Knoedler, New York, 1961
acquired by the sitter's great-grandson, Colonel Hugh Douglas Peregrine Francis, M.C., T.D., M.A., of Lincoln's Inn Fields and The Rectory, Chidingstone, Kent, and thence by descent to the present owner
sale Bonhams, London, 7 December 2011, nr. 62 (withdrawn)

Other works by Thomas Lawrence

Head study of a lady

Portrait of James Curtis
1804

Warren Hastings
1811

Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Castlereagh)
1809-1810

Sir John Soane, Aged 76
1828-1829