Collections

• Painted to be raffled for the sitter’s benefit: listed in the artist's Account Book as 'Old John at the King's Head Raffled for & paid 12.12';
• According to Bemrose, raffled at Derby Town Hall;[2]
• Daniel Parker Coke, MP (1745-1825) acquired at the above raffle;
• Joseph Strutt (1765-1844), Derby, by 1835;
• Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper (1801-1880), Kingston Hall, Northamptonshire by descent;
• The Hon. Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper (1840- 1914), Kingston Hall, Northamptonshire;
• Algernon Strutt, 3rd Baron Belper (1883-1956), Kingston Hall, Northamptonshire;
• The Hon. Peter Algernon Strutt (1924-2007), Kingston Hall, Northamptonshire;
• Strutt sale, Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1986, lot 54;
• Zankel-West collection, New York

Exhibitions

• Derby, Derby Art Gallery, Midland Counties Exhibition, May 1870, no. 800;
• Derby, Derby Corporation Art Gallery, Paintings by Joseph Wright...with some Original Drawings and a complete Collection of Prints, 1883, no. 106;
• Derby, Derby Corporation Art Gallery, Bi- Centenary Exhibition of the Works of Wright of Derby, 1934, no. 91;
• London, Tate Gallery; Paris, Grand Palais; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wright of Derby, 1990, no.140.

Literature

• J. Strutt, A Catalogue of the Paintings and Drawings...in the collection of Joseph Strutt, Derby, 1835, no. 66;
• William Bemrose, The Life and Works of Joseph Wright A.R.A., London, 1885, pp. 10 and 120;
• Benedict Nicholson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, London, 1968, I, p. 233, no. 182; 
• Ed. Judy Egerton, Wright of Derby, exh. cat., London (Tate Gallery), 1990, p. 215, no. 140;
• Elizabeth Barker, ‘Documents relating to Joseph Wright 'of Derby' (1734-97)’, Walpole Society, LXXI, 2009, pp. 15, 53 and 195;
• Eds. Giles Waterhouse and Anne French, Below Stairs, 400 years of servants' portraits, London, 2004, pp. 50 and 78.