Painted in 1777
Sittings: seven between 8th April and 5th July 1777
Collections
John Smith, husband of the sitter (d.1803);
Margaret Smith-Burges, the sitter, who latterly married John, 4th Earl Poulett;
John, 5th Earl Poulett (d.1864);
William, 6th Earl Poulett;
Alfred Charles de Rothschild (d.1918), Halton House, Buckinghamshire, acquired from the above before 1884;
Lionel de Rothschild (d.1942), Exbury House, Hampshire, nephew of the above;
Edmund de Rothschild, Exbury House, Hampshire;
Spink-Leger Pictures, acquired from the above in 1997;
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above in 1997, to 2021;
Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.
Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by deceased Masters of the British School, 1889, no.182;
Berlin, Royal Academy of Arts, Ausstellung Älterer Englischer Kunst, 1908, no 53;
Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, Pictures and Porcelain from the Collections of Edmund de Rothschild, 1988, no. 19;
London, Spink-Leger Pictures, British Paintings and Watercolours of the 17th . 18th & 19th Centuries, 1997, no. 5
Literature
Charles A Davis, A Description of the Works of Art Forming the collection of Alfred de Rothschild Esq., London, 1884, vol. I ,(n.p.);
Sir Herbert Maxwell, George Romney, London, 1902. p.186 , no. 303;
George Paston, George Romney, London, 1903, p.197;
T Humphrey Ward & William Roberts, Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Works, London & New York, 1904, vol. II,, pp.126, 144-45;
Marion Spielmann, British Portrait Painters to the Opening of the Nineteenth Century, London, 1910, vol. 2, pp. 18-19;
Alex Kidson, George Romney, a complete catalogue of his paintings, New Haven & London, 2015, vol. III, p.537, no. 1203.