GEORGE ROMNEY | PORTRAIT OF SIR JOHN PAPILLON TWISDEN, 7TH BARONET (1743-1810), THREE-QUARTER-LENGTH, IN A LANDSCAPE

Presumably by descent to Sir John Twisden, 8th Bt (d. 1841), and thence by descent to his Geary cousins;

By descent to Sir William N.M. Geary, 1900;

Maurice Édouard Kann (1839-1906), Paris, 

By whose Executors sold, Paris, Galerie George Petit, 9 June 1911, lot 29 (as Hoppner);

With Knoedler, New York;

From whom acquired by Burton Mansfield, New Haven (b. 1856), by 1912;

With Lionel Straus, New York;

Anonymous sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 11 March 1953, lot 33;

Where acquired by Hugh Paine, New York;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 19 May 1994, lot 320;

With Miller & Beatty, Dublin;

Ian MacKay Kean, Palm Beach, Florida;

By whom sold, New York, LiveAuctioneers, 25 April 2019, lot 25, where acquired by the present owner.

H. Ward & W. Roberts, Romney, London 1904, vol. II, p. 161 (erroneously described as full-length);

A. Kidson, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London 2015, vol. II, pp. 591-92, cat. no. 1325, reproduced (as location unknown).

This portrait was painted in 1782 following six appointments between Sir John and Romney. The sitter was the youngest son of Sir Roger Twisden, 5th Bt., of Bradbourn, Kent. He succeeded his brother as 7th Bt. in 1799 and died in 1810. The title became extinct in 1841.