Corneille de Lyon

Alfred Morrison (1821–1897), Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire;

Thence by descent to his son, Hugh Morrison MP (1868–1931), Fonthill House;

Thence by descent to his son, John Granville Morrison MP, 1st Lord Margadale (1906–1996), Fonthill House;

Thence by descent to his son, James Ian Morrison, 2nd Lord Margadale (1930–2003), Fonthill House;

Thence by descent to his son, Alastair John Morrison, 3rd Lord Margadale (b. 1958), Fonthill House;

By whom sold (‘Property of the Lord Margadale of Islay DL’), London, Christie’s, 8 December 2016, lot 19;

With Beaumont Nathan, London;

From whom acquired by the present owner.

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Third National Loan Exhibition: Pictures from the Basildon Park and Fonthill Collections, Winter 1914–15, no. 43;

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of French Art, 1200–1900, 4 January – 12 March 1932, no. 102 (as attributed to Corneille de Lyon, Portrait of Théodore Bèze; lent by John Morrison, Fonthill);

Manchester, City of Manchester Art Gallery, French Art Exhibition, 22 March – 1 May 1932, no. 109.

A. Dubois de Groër, Corneille De La Haye, dit Corneille De Lyon, Paris 1996, pp. 173–74, no. 70;

The painting will be included in the forthcoming publication by UCL Press (September 2025): E. Burns, ‘‘Fine old pictures’: on the trail of Alfred Morrison's Old Masters’, in Millionaire Shopping. The collections of Alfred Morrison 1821–1897, C. Dakers (ed.), London 2025, pp. 325 and 348 nn. 44–46.