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.

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.

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.