THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. | Portrait of J. Dudley, half-length, wearing a long bob wig and in a grey coat

Anonymous sale, London, Bonhams, 25 May 1961, lot 22 where purchased by Sabin;

With Sidney Sabin, London;

From whom purchased by Henri-Philippe Crombé (1904–69), Brussels, by 1963;

Thence by descent to the present owner.

J. Hayes, 'Some Unknown Early Gainsborough Portraits', in The Burlington Magazine, February 1965, vol. 107, no. 743, pp. 69 and 74, cat. no. 3;

H. Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough, vol. I, New Haven and London 2019, p. 270, cat. no. 277, reproduced.