John Singer Sargent, R.A.

Given by the sitter to her daughter, Lady Juliet Duff (1881–1965), in 1917;

By descent to her daughter, Veronica (1904–1967), who married Lt.-Col. John Edward Tennant (1890–1941);

Thence by descent to the present owner. 

D. McKibbin, Sargent’s Boston: With an Essay & a Biographical Summary & a Complete Check List of Sargent’s Portraits, exh. cat., Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1956; a complete checklist of Sargent’s portraits is listed separately as ‘McKibbin 1966’, p. 119 (as ‘Gladys Marchioness of Ripon’, dated c. 1914);

C. M. Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New York 1969, p. 450, no. 144 (as ‘The Marchioness of Ripon’, dated 1914);

W. Rieder, A Charmed Couple: The Art and Life of Walter and Matilda Gay, New York 2000, p. 110, reproduced fig. 69 and pl. 114;

R. Ormond and E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, vol. III, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 148 and 296, no. 490; 

K. McCarthy and H. Faurby (eds), Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2021, pp. 108, 125 and 180. 

London, M. Knoedler & Co., Beautiful Women of the Nineteenth Century, 1933, no. 20;

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution, 20 November 2021 – 8 May 2022 (un-numbered).