Collections

• Probably Jonathan Richardson, the Younger (1694-1771);
• Probably his posthumous sale, Langford and Son, London, 18th February 1772, lot 45 ('Richardson Senior, His own portrait');
• James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812-60), before 1861;
• Lady Susan Georgiana Broun Bourke (1837-98), by whom brought to Colstoun House, Haddington (according to an old handwritten label on the reverse);
• By descent in the Broun family at Colstoun House to 2017.

Literature

• J. Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits. National Portrait Gallery, London 1977, vol. 1, pp. 228 and 231, under cat. no. 706, reproduced vol. 2, plate 674.