Rebecca Solomon

Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906) (by 1862);

Probably thence by descent to William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts (1851-1921);

By whose executors sold The Burdett-Coutts Collection of Pictures and Drawings, Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., London, 4-5 May 1922, lot 239;

Where acquired by William Sampson, London (The British Galleries);

Private Collection, West Coast.

The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, London 1858, p. 43, no. 1094.

"Exhibition of the Royal Academy: Third Notice," Illustrated London News, 22 May 1858, p. 517.

"Exhibition of the Royal Academy: Second Notice," Daily News, 6 May 1858, p. 2.

"Royal Academy Review," The Athenaeum, 1 May 1858, p. 598.

The Globe, 10 April 1858, p. 1.

The Express, 6 May 1858, p. 2.

Yorkshire Gazette, 8 May 1858, p. 8.

Illustrated London Times, 29 May 1858, p. 10.

Northern Daily Times, 11 October 1858, p. 8.

"British Division," The Illuminated Guide to the International Exhibition, London 1862, p. 9, no. 449.

A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813–1912: V–Z and Addenda, United Kingdom 1914, p. 2180.

E. Clayton, English Female Artists, vol. II, London 1876, pp. 129–130.

P. Gerrish-Nunn, Solomon: A Family of Painters, exhibition catalogue, Geffrye Museum, London; Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery; 8 November 1985–9 March 1986, pp. 19–20, plate xiii (as an engraving).

London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1858, no. 1094 

Liverpool, Liverpool Society for Fine Arts, 1858, no. 707 

London, International Exhibition, 1862, no. 449 

Leeds, National Exhibition of Works of Art, 1868, no. 1314 (as A Painful Interlude In the Professional Duties of A Clown)

London, Whitechapel (St. Jude's School House), Fine Arts Exhibition, 1885, no. 123 (as The Clown Behind the Curtain)