SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. | PORTRAIT OF MISS MAITLAND, HALF-LENGTH, SEATED IN A LANDSCAPE, WEARING A WHITE DRESS WITH A BLUE SASH

James Henry Todd, Bury, Sussex;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1918, lot 58, for £58 to Taylor;

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Sotheby's, 10 November 1993, lot 74.

The sitter was possibly a relative of Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland (1777-1839), to whom, as commander of H.M.S. Bellerophon, Napoleon surrendered on 15 July 1815 before being taken to St. Helena. Raeburn painted portraits of both the admiral and his wife, Catherine Connor (d. 1865).¹

We are grateful to Dr Duncan Thomson for endorsing the attribution to Raeburn on the basis of digital images.

¹ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437360