Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.

Probably commissioned by the sitter and her husband;

Thence by descent to their second son, Sir Thomas Bateson, 2nd Baronet and later 1st Baron Deramore of Belvoir (1819–1890) (according to a label on the reverse); 

Probably by descent to his brother, George William Bateson, later Yarburgh-Bateson and 2nd Baron Deramore (1823–1893), Heslington Hall, North Yorkshire;

By descent in the family until probably on the art market in 1957 (according to a photograph in the Heinz Archive);

With Colnaghi, London, 1961;

Alma Holton, Toronto, by 1962;

Thence by descent to the present owner.

Belfast, Jubilee Exhibition, 1888, no. 23 (according to a label on the reverse).

K. Garlick, 'A catalogue of the paintings, drawings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence', in Walpole Society, vol. 39, 1962–64, p. 29 (as dating to 1811/12);

K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings, New York 1989, p. 146, no. 73, reproduced.