ATTRIBUTED TO SIR MARTIN ARCHER SHEE, P.R.A | PORTRAIT OF SIR HENRY GOODRICKE, BART., THREE-QUARTER LENGTH, SEATED WITH A LANDSCAPE BEYOND

Possibly Fairfax-Cholmeley Collection at Brandsby Hall, Easingwold, Yorkshire;

With T.H. Ward;

From whom purchased by Agnew's, London, June 1908;

From whom acquired by L. & P. Rosenberg Fils, December 1908;

With Newhouse Galleries, New York;

With Glassers Art Gallery;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 11 March 1977, lot 47 (as John Hoppner);

With C.G. Rein Galleries, Saint Paul, Minnesota;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 17 January 1992, lot 170 (as John Hoppner).

W. McKay and W. Roberts, John Hoppner, R.A., Supplement, London 1914, p. 20 (as John Hoppner).  

This sitter was the grandson of Sir John Goodricke, Bart., P.C., Envoy Extraordinary at Stockholm, whom he succeeded as 6th Baronet of Ribston, co York. He was married on 30 November 1796 to Charlotte, daughter of the Right Hon. James Fortescue. He died on March 23, 1802.