STUDIO OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. | PORTRAIT OF MASTER EDWIN, HALF LENGTH

Sir Robert Cunliffe, 2nd Baronet of Acton Hall, near Wrexham;

Thence by descent to Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet of Acton Hall, near Wrexham;

By whose trustees sold, London, Sotheby's, London, 1 February 1950, lot 130;

With Newhouse Galleries, New York (according to label on reverse).

Anonymous sale ("Property from the Estate of Charles M Johnson, Pennsylvania"), New York, Sotheby's, 12 January 1979, lot 105;

There acquired.

Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Eighteenth Century of Art of France and England, 27 April- 31 May 1950, no. 12.

S.W. Reynolds and R. Parkes, Engravings from the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., London 1845, vol. 1, p. 1, cat. no. 36 (as Sir Joshua Reynolds), reproduced;

D. Mannings and M. Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, text vol., p. 528, cat. no. 2067b (as a copy).