Pompeo Batoni

By descent in the family of the sitter, through the descendants of the sitter’s first cousin, Thomas Kerrich (d. 1809), Geldeston Hall, Norfolk (recorded on an old label on the reverse);

By descent to Captain Walter Fitzgerald Kerrich (d. 1913), Geldeston Hall, by 1907;

Private collection, Johannesburg, South Africa, by 1982;

Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Christie’s, 3 July 2012, lot 35;

Where acquired by Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris, 2012 (when exhibited at Paris Tableau);

From whom acquired in November 2012.

Prince F. Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk Houses, Rev. E. Farrer (ed.), Norwich 1928, vol. I, p. 177, no. 22 (as Thomas Kerrich of Geldeston Hall, Norfolk, circa 1780);

E. Emmerling, Pompeo Batoni: Sein Leben und Werk, Darmstadt 1932, p. 104, no. 35 (circa 1780);

J. Steegman, ‘Some English portraits by Pompeo Batoni’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. LXXXVII, no. 88, March 1946, p. 63, no. 84 (as Thomas Kerrich of Geldeston Hall, Norfolk, circa 1783);

I. Belli Barsali, ‘Pompeo Girolamo Batoni’, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. VII, Rome 1965, p. 201 (circa 1783);

E.P. Bowron and F. Russell, ‘A list of Pompeo Batoni’s British sitters’, in Pompeo Batoni and his British Patrons, exh. cat., London 1982, p. 92, no. 99 (as circa 1767);

A.M. Clark, Pompeo Batoni. A complete catalogue of his works with an introductory text, E.P. Bowron (ed.), London 1985, pp. 333–34, no. 379 (as circa 1773–74);

J. Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701–1800, New Haven and London 1997, p. 574;

J. Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian portraits, 1760–1790, London 2004, p. 309 (as Thomas Kerrich of Geldeston Hall, Norfolk);

E.P. Bowron, Pompeo Batoni. A complete catalogue of his paintings, New Haven and London 2016, vol. II, pp. 483–84, no. 386, reproduced in colour p. 483.