Attributed to Hugh Barron

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 20 March 1974, lot 65 (as Joshua Reynolds), for £1,000 to J.M. Alabaster;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 16 July 1975, lot 53 (as Joshua Reynolds);

With Ledbury Galleries, London (as Joshua Reynolds);

From whom acquired, 21 May 1976, by the previous owner;

Thence by inheritance.

William Lushington, of Monks' Hall, Essex, married Paulina, only child of Thomas French Esq., and had three daughters. He was a younger brother of Sir Stephen Lushington, 1st Bt., who was Chairman of the East India Company in 1790. William Lushington himself arrived in Bengal on 26 August 1764 and was Supravisor of Hooghly from 1770 to 1773, living at 'Houghly Hall' on the banks of the river; he later resigned from the East India Company in 1773, and became an Alderman and MP for the City of London.