Collections

• Sir Robert Gunning (1731-1816), 1st Bt., father of the sitter; 
• Sir Frederick Digby Gunning (1853-1906), 6th Bt. By descent;
• Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, May 1905;
• Duveen Bros. New York;
• Edward Stotesbury, Whitemarsh Hall, Philadelphia, acquired from the above, to 1941;
• James St. L. O'Toole Galleries, New York, Catalogue of the Paintings ... of the late Edward T. Stotesbury, April 23-May 10 1941, lot 17 (unsold);
• Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 April 1944, lot 2; bt A. Linah;
• Mr and Mrs Kay Kimbell, acquired in 1950;
• Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; 
• Kimbell Art Museum sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 20 April 1983, lot 21;
• Leger Galleries, London (purchased at the above);
• Private collection, acquired from the above;
• Christie’s, New York, 19 January 1996, lot 420;
• Chawton House Library, Alton, Hampshire, acquired at the above, to 2018

Exhibitions

• London, Agnew’s, Eleventh Annual Exhibition on behalf of the Artists’ General Benevolent Fund, 1905, no. 20;
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, The Stotesbury Collection, 1932 (no cat. number);
• San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Masterpieces of English Portraiture, 1941, no. 17;
• London, Leger Galleries, Realism through Informality, 1983, no. 16.

Literature

• Hilda Gamlin, George Romney and His Art, London, 1894, p. 191; 
• Humphrey Ward and William Roberts, Romney, A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Works, London and New York, 1904, vol. II, p.68;
• Arthur Chamberlain, George Romney, London, 1910, pp. 305-6;
• Marion Spielmann, British Portrait Painters to the Opening of the Nineteenth Century, London, 1910, vol. 2, p.6;
• H. Marceau, ‘The Stotesbury Collection’, Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin, December 1932, vol. 28, p. 21, repr. opp. p. 23;
• Helen Comstock, ‘The Connoisseur in America’, Connoisseur, August 1941, vol. CVIII, p. 79;
• Art Digest, May 1941, vol. XV, pp. 8 & 19;
• Jennifer C. Watson, George Romney in Canada, exh. cat., Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada, 1985, p. 60;
• Alex Kidson, George Romney, A complete catalogue of his paintings, vol. I, New Haven and London, 2015, p. 268, no. 579, repr.