Sir Edward John Poynter, Bt., P.R.A., R.W.S.

Sir Bruce Maxwell Seton (1836-1915), by 1903

His sale: Christie’s, London, 2 and 4 March 1912, lot 127; bought by Gooden & Fox, London on behalf of Sir Brodie Haldane Henderson, KCMG (1869-1936), Braughing, with whom it remained until at least 1954 

Martin Newman Ltd, London, 1963

Sale: Phillips, London, 22 July 1974, lot 185, as Iris

Sale: Christie’s, London, 25 April 1975, lot 67

Frederick William John Augustus Hervey, Lord Jermyn (his sale: Sotheby’s, New York, 26 October 1983, lot 100)

Maas Gallery, London, where purchased 13 December 1989 by Martin R. Davis, Bristol

'The Royal Academy', in The Times, 5 May 1900, p. 14

Illustrated London News, 5 May 1900, p.3

Academy Notes, 1900, p. 16

'The Royal Academy of 1900', in The Art Journal, 1900, p. 164

Graham Reynolds, Victorian Painting, London, 1966, illustrated p. 130, pl. 85

Christopher Wood, Olympian Dreamers - Victorian Classical Painters 1860-1914, London, 1983, illustrated p. 148, pl. 11

Gill Saunders, The Nude: A New Perspective, New Haven, 1989, p. 82, illustrated

Bernard Denvir, A Most Agreeable Society - A Hundred and Twenty Five Years of the Arts Club, 1989, a photograph of Poynter working on the picture, p. 50, illustrated

Michael Liversidge and Catherine Edwards (eds.), Imagining Rome - British Artists and Rome in the Nineteenth Century, London, 1996, pp. 165-167, p. 166, illustrated

London, Royal Academy, 1900, no. 224

Maas Gallery, London, Pre-Raphaelites and Romantics, 1989, no. 48

Bristol, Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, Imagining Rome - British Artists and Rome in the Nineteenth Century, 1996, no. 62