Provenance

By descent in the family of the sitter until,
Charles Frederick Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 13th Duke of St. Albans (1915-1988); [The Property of the Duke of St. Albans], Christie's, London, 23 June 1978, lot 123.
[A Mansion Overlooking a Royal Park]; Sotheby's, London, 28 April 2015, lot 86, where acquired after the sale by the present owner
Sale Christie's, New York, 21 May 2025, nr. 138

Other works by Joshua Reynolds

Portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Bradshaw, née Wilson (d. 1802), half-length, in a white silk dress with an ermine-lined blue cloak

Portrait of General William John Kerr (1737-1815), 5th Marquess of Lothian, styled Lord Newbottle and later Earl of Ancram, half-length

Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces
1763-65

Lady Betty Hamilton
1758

The Honorable Henry Fane with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
1761-66