Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.

Probably given by the sitter to her brother, Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (1744–1803);

By direct descent to Henry Charles FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1824–1899);

By whom sold in 1894 to Alfred de Rothschild (1842–1918);

Thence by family descent;

From whom acquired by the present owners in 1997.

London, British Institution, Exhibition of The Works of Ancient Masters and Deceased British Artists, June 1866, no. 118;

London, South Kensington Museum, Second special exhibition of National Portraits commencing with the reign of William and Mary and ending with the year MDCCC, May 1867, no. 661;

London, Grafton Gallery, Fair Women, Summer 1894, no. 60.

Anon., 'Celebrated Beauties', in The Strand Magazine, vol. 1, no. 6, London 1891, p. 611, reproduced;

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A., London 1899–1902, vol. II, no. 854;

A.L. Baldry, Sir Joshua Reynolds, London 1903, p. xix, reproduced pl. 51;

E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London 1941, p. 79;

D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven 2000, vol. I, p. 325, no. 1214, reproduced vol. II, p. 543, fig. 1446 (as painted 1784–87).

ENGRAVED

J.K. Sherwin, 1791;

S.W. Reynolds 1784–87;

W. Read, 1836.