Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.

Gerard Phelips (1884–1940), Montacute House, Somerset;

By whom sold ("Property of Gerard Phelips, Esq., removed from Montacute House, Somerset"), Christie's, London, 29 November 1929, lot 47 (incorrectly identified as "Portrait of the Hon. Henry Fane");

Where acquired by Thos. Agnew & Sons, London;

From whom acquired by Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938), Philadelphia, 4 December 1930;

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 March 1974, lot 75;

Private collection, New England;

By whom sold ("Property from a New England Private Collection"), Sotheby's, New York, 5 June 2008, lot 92;

Where acquired by the present collector.

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London 1899, vol. I, p. 88;

D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven/London 2000, vol. I, p. 91, cat. no. 184; vol. II, p. 297, reproduced fig. 602;

K. Baetjer, British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York 2009, pp. 64-65, under cat. no. 28, reproduced fig. 55.