Francis Hayman, R.A.

Painted for David Garrick, circa 1745;

Thence by descent to his wife, Marie Veigel (1724–1822);

By whose executors sold, London, Christie's, 23 June 1823, lot 45, for £12–16s., to Peter Norton;

With Peter Norton;

George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, by 1860;

Thence by descent to Henry Agar-Ellis, 4th Viscount Clifden (1863–1895), by 1867;

By whose executors sold, London, Robinson & Fisher, 25 May 1895, lot 718, for £73–10s., to Davis;

By whom acquired for Lilah Agar-Ellis, sister of 4th Viscount Clifden and wife of Luke, 3rd Baron Annaly;

Thence by descent to her grandson, Captain George Lowther;

By whom sold (The Property of Captain G. Lowther), London, Sotheby's, 17 November 1971, lot 97, for £15,500, to Leggatt Bros;

With Leggatt Bros, London;

From whom purchased by a private collector;

By whom sold (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Sotheby's, 10 November 1993, lot 47, for £161,000;

With Simon Dickinson, London;

From whom acquired in 2014.

London, National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Exhibition, 1867, no. 437;

London, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, Paintings and Drawings by Francis Hayman, R.A. (1708–1776), 1960, no. 14;

Northampton, Pictures from Northamptonshire Houses, 1966, no. 25;

Romania and Hungary, British Council Exhibition, British Portraits, 1972–73 (according to a label on the reverse);

Norwich, Norwich Castle Museum, Norfolk and the Grand Tour, 1985, no. 59;

New Haven, Yale Center for British Art and London, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, Francis Hayman, 1 April–31 May and 24 June–30 September 1987 respectively, no. 10.

A. Murphy, The Life of Garrick, Dublin 1801, vol. II, pp. 67–68;

C. Oman, David Garrick, London 1958, p. 100;

K. A. Burnim, ‘The Significance of Garrick’s Letters to Hayman’, in Shakespeare Quarterly, Spring 1958, p. 149 n. 1;

‘Collector’s Questions’ in Country Life, vol. CXXVI, 10 December 1959, pp. 1142, 1314;

Francis Hayman, B. Allen (ed.), exh. cat., New Haven and London, 1987, p. 91–92, no. 10.