Follower of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.

Windsor Vaughan (1716–86), of Ottery, St. Mary, Devon, to whom gifted by the artist (this line and by descent according to a label on the reverse);
Thence by inheritance to his widow;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 26 June 1835, lot 67, unsold;
Thence by inheritance to her nephew, Rev. George Cornish, Salcombe Hill, Sidmouth;
Thence by family descent to
Mrs. E. Wilmot, 1870 (according to Derby 1870, exh. cat., no. 810);
By inheritance to Captain Edward Wilmot;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 29 March 1963, lot 60, for 100 guineas (as follower of Reynolds);
Where acquired by the family of present owner;
Thence by descent.

Possibly Derby, Midland Counties Exhibition, May 1870, no. 810 (as Portrait, lent by Mrs. E. Wilmot).

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A., vol. II, London 1899, p. 811 (as Sir Joshua Reynolds, listed incorrectly as sold at Christie's, 26 June 1835);
A. Graves, Art sales from early in the eighteenth century to early in the twentieth century, London 1921, vol. III, p. 17 (as Sir Joshua Reynolds, listed incorrectly as sold at Christie's, 26 June 1835).