Anton von Maron

William Drury-Lowe (1803–1877), Locko Park, Derbyshire;

Thence by descent to his son, William Drury Nathaniel Lowe (1828–1906), Locko Park;

Thence by descent to his son, William Drury Drury-Lowe (1877–1916), Locko Park;

Thence by inheritance to his brother, John Alfred Edwin Drury-Lowe (1881–1949), Locko Park;

Thence by descent to his son, John Drury Boteler Packe-Drury-Lowe (1905–1960), Locko Park;

Thence by descent to his son, Captain Patrick John Boteler Drury-Lowe (1931–1993), Locko Park;

Thence by descent until sold (‘Paintings from the Drury-Lowe Collection at Locko Park, Derbyshire’), London, Sotheby’s, 8 July 2004, lot 229 (as by Anton Raphael Mengs);

With Colnaghi–Bernheimer, Munich and London, 2005;

Schloss Fuschl collection, Hof near Salzburg, Austria;

With Colnaghi–Bernheimer, Munich and London, by 2014 (as by Anton von Maron);

From whom acquired in March 2015.

Nottingham, University Art Gallery, Pictures from Locko Park, Collection of Captain P.J.B. Drury-Lowe, 9 February – 19 March 1968, no. 34 (as Ozias Humphrey).

J.P. Richter, Catalogue of pictures at Locko Park, London and Derby 1901, p. 80, no. 193 (as anonymous, in the manner of Reynolds, ‘Portrait of William Pitt’);

I. Schmittmann, Anton von Maron (1731–1808). Leben und Werk, Munich 2013, p. 260, no. 69, reproduced p. 522, no. 70, and in colour p. 553, fig. 9c.