JOHN SMART | PORTRAIT OF DAVID SHAKESPEAR (1751-1823)

Lilian Mary Dyer, née Bose (d. 1955), a great-granddaughter of the artist;

her sale, London, Christie's, 26 November 1937, lot 20;

sale, Geneva, Sotheby's, 26 June 1980, lot 21

Foskett, 1964, p. 87

This sitter, of the Stepney Shakespears, was the son of John Shakespear, Alderman of London. He was the proprietor of Hodges Pen, on the south-western coast of Jamaica.