Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.

With Henry Graves & Co., London;

Francis Lance, Southampton;

With J.A. Tooth, London, 1978;

Dr. and Mrs. Manfred R. Lehmann, New York, by 1989;

Thereafter acquired by the present collector.

K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings, New York 1989, p. 292, cat. no. 870, reproduced.

This portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, the leading portraitist of his generation, likely dates to circa 1790, when, at the outset of his illustrious career, Lawrence was on the cusp of achieving public success.