Literature

Charles Sterling, Maryan W. Ainsworth, Charles Talbot, Martha Wolff, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Jonathan Brown, John Hayes, The Robert Lehman Collection, New York, Princeton, 1998, nr. 41

Provenance

commissioned in 1788 by the sitter's husband, Sir William Lemon, first baronet, Carclew, Cornwall
by descent through his youngest daughter, Caroline-Mathilda, to his grandson Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Tremayne (1827-1905), Carclew, 1882-1904 or later
with Lewis and Simmons, London, 1919
with Duveen Brothers, New York
Edward T. Stotesbury, Phildelphia, by 1932
Stotesbury sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 November 1944, nr. 8
purchased by Robert Lehman at the Stotesbury sale in 1944

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1975.1.235

Other works by George Romney

Miss Willoughby
1781-83

Mrs. Davenport
1782-84

Mrs. Bryan Cooke

Miss Mary Finch-Hatton
1788

Lady Hamilton as 'Nature'
1782