Sir Henry Raeburn R.A., P.R.S.A.

In the artist's collection until his death in 1823;

Thence by descent in the Raeburn Family;

Their sale ("By Order of the Raeburn Family"), London, Christie's, 7 May 1877, lot 13;

Where acquired by the sitter of the portrait, William Scott-Elliot (1811-1901), Arkleton, Langholm;

Thence by descent to his grandson, Walter Travers Scott-Elliot (1895-1977), Arkleton, Langholm;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 12 May 1927, lot 87;

Where acquired by Gooden & Fox, London;

With Duveen, London, 1927;

From whom acquired by Jules Semon Bache (1861–1944), New York, 1927;

The Bache Foundation, New York, 1944-1945;

From whom acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1945.

W. Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn, London 1901, p. 115;

E. Pinnington, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., London 1904, p. 225;

E. Brandu, "La collection des tableaux anciens de M. Jules S. Bache, à New-York," in La Renaissance 11 (May 1928), p. 184;

"Women and Children Shown at Reinhardt's," in Art News 27 (23 February 1929), p. 1;

W. Heil, "The Jules Bache Collection," in Art News 27 (27 April 1929), p. 4;

A Catalogue of Paintings in the Collection of Jules S. Bache, New York 1929, n.p., reproduced;

A.M. Frankfurter, "Paintings by Raeburn in America," in Antiquarian 14 (January 1930), reproduced p. 33;

A.L. Mayer, "Die Sammlung Jules Bache in New-York," in Pantheon 6 (December 1930), p. 542;

A Catalogue of Paintings in the Bache Collection, New York 1937, n.p., cat. no. 59, reproduced;

Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America, New York 1941, n.p., cat. no. 297, reproduced;

A Catalogue of Paintings in the Bache Collection, revised edition, New York 1943, n.p., cat. no. 58, reproduced;

J.L. Allen and E.E. Gardner, A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1954, p. 80;

D. Mackie, Raeburn, Life and Art, A Complete Catalogue of the Artist's Work, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh and Yale University 1994, vol. II, pp. 372–373, cat. no. 257;

K. Baetjer, European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue, New York 1995, p. 197, reproduced;

M. Secrest, Duveen: A Life in Art, New York 2004, p. 474;

K. Baetjer, British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York 2009, p. 174, cat. no. 85, reproduced.

Edinburgh, Associated Society of Artists, 1815, no. 42;

Edinburgh, Associated Society of Artists, 1816, no. 118;

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Works of Deceased and Living Scottish Artists, October 1863, no. 43;

Edinburgh, Royal Academy, National Galleries, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., October - November 1876, no. 187;

New York, Reinhardt Galleries, Paintings of Women and Children by Masters from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, 23 February - 16 March 1929, no. 19;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Bache Collection, 16 June - 30 September 1943, no. 58;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Small Illusions: Children's Costume 1710–1920, 20 June - 9 September 1990.