Francesco Renaldi

Miss M.J.C. Gray;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 12 March 1969, lot 98A, where acquired by the present collector.

M. Archer, 'Renaldi and India: A Romantic Encounter', Apollo, vol. 104, no. 174, August 1976, pp. 100-1, reproduced fig. 4;

M. Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770–1825, London and New York 1979, p. 286, reproduced pl. 198;

M. Archer & R. Lightbown, India Observed: India as viewed by British Artists, 1760–1860, exh. cat., London 1982, p. 38, under cat. no. 10;

H. Almeida & G.H. Gilpin, Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India, Abingdon-on-Thames 2005, p. 85;

D. Kamińska-Jones, 'England's affair with India. Bibi in the art of European Artists in the second half of the eighteenth century', in B. Lakomska (ed.), The Artistic Traditions of Non-European Cultures, vol. 2, Krakow 2013, pp. 102-3;

P. de Silva, Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785–1845: Visualising Identity and Difference, Cambridge 2018, pp. 66-67.

Possibly, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1791, no. 399;

Possibly, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1797, no. 733.