Sir Henry Raeburn R.A., P.R.S.A.

Robert M. Mann (1869-1917), by 1901;

Robert Hood Brechin (1848-1918), Esq., Glasgow; 

His sale, Glasgow, J. & R. Edmiston, 13 March 1919;

With Doig, Wilson, and Wheatley, Edinburgh, March 1930;

With Scott and Fowles, New York, by 1931;

Frederick Patterson;

Anonymous sale, San Francisco, Butterfield & Butterfield, 12 June 1986, lot 2306;

Private collection, California;

From whom bequested to the present owner. 

W. Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn, London and New York 1901, p. 98;

R. Greig, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., His Life and Works, London 1911, p. 125;

D. Mackie, Raeburn, Life and Art, A Complete Catalogue of the Artist's Work, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh and Yale University, 1994, p. 272, cat. no. 153(2).

Glasgow, International Exhibition, 1901, no. 154 (lent by R.M. Mann);

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Winter Exhibition, 1901, no. 162 (lent by R.M. Mann);

London, Paterson’s Gallery, 1902, no. 2 (lent by R.M. Mann).

This is a second autograph version of Sir Henry Raeburn's portrait of Dr. Robert Cleghorn, the prime version of which is today in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (on loan to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow). Archibald Smith of Jordanhill commissioned the original from Raeburn in 1819 and gifted it soon thereafter to the Royal Glasgow Asylum in honor of the sitter's service there from 1814-1819.1

1. Mackie 1994, p. 272, under cat. no. 153(1).