George Romney

Commissioned by the sitter's husband, Bryan Cooke (1756-1821), Owston, Doncaster, Yorkshire, and Gwysaney, Mold, Flintshire;

Thence by descent to his great-grandson, Philip Tatton Davies-Cooke (1863-1946), Owston, Doncaster, Yorkshire, and Gwysaney, Mold, Flintshire;

From whom acquired by Duveen, New York and London, 1927;

From whom acquired by Jules Semon Bache (1861-1944), New York, 1927;

Bache Foundation, New York, 1944-1945;

From whom acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1945.

G. Paston, George Romney, London 1903, p. 192 (as engraved by H. Greenhead);

H. Ward and W. Roberts, Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Works, vol. I, London 1904, pp. 111, 119; vol. II, p. 32;

A.B. Chamberlain, George Romney, New York 1910, p. 322;

E. Brandus, "La collection des tableaux anciens de M. Jules S. Bache, à New-York," in La Renaissance 11 (May 1928), pp. 184, 186;

W. Heil, "The Jules Bache Collection," in Art News 27 (27 April 1929), pp. 4, 23, reproduced;

A Catalogue of Paintings in the Collection of Jules S. Bache, New York 1929, n.p., reproduced;

A.L. Mayer, "Die Sammlung Jules Bache in New-York," in Pantheon 6 (December 1930), p. 542;

A Catalogue of Paintings in the Bache Collection, New York 1937, n.p., cat. no. 61, reproduced;

Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America, New York 1941, n.p., cat. no. 293, reproduced;

A Catalogue of Paintings in the Bache Collection, revised edition, New York 1943, n.p., cat. no. 61, reproduced;

"English Portraits in the Jules Bache Collection," in Connoisseur 113 (March 1944), pp. 54-55, reproduced;

J.L. Allen and E.E. Gardner, A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1954, p. 85;

J. Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses. Vol. I, Houses in North Wales, Cardiff 1957, p. 166, cat. no. 34;

K. Baetjer, European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue, New York 1995, p. 191, reproduced;

B. Maclean-Eltham, George Romney: Paintings in Public Collections, Kendal, England 1996, p. 23;

M. Secrest, Duveen: A Life in Art, New York 2004, p. 485;

K. Baetjer, British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York 2009, pp. 131-133, cat. no. 59, reproduced;

A. Kidson, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, vol. I, New Haven 2015, p. 145, cat. no. 281, reproduced; vol. III, p. 856.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Winter Exhibition, 6 January - 14 March 1896, no. 35;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Bache Collection, 16 June - 30 September 1943, no. 61;

Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Romantic Era: Birth and Flowering 1750-1850, 21 February - 11 April 1965, no. 13;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Eighteenth-Century Woman, 12 December 1981 - 5 September 1982.