John Hoppner, R.A.

The sitter, Jane Elizabeth Harley (née Scott), Countess of Oxford, and her husband, Edward Harley (1773-1848), 5th Earl of Oxford, Brampton Bryan Hall, Herefordshire;

Thence by descent to their daughter, Jane Elizabeth Bickersteth (née Harley; 1796-1872), Lady Langdale, Brampton Bryan Hall, Herefordshire;

Thence by inheritance, as part of her entailed estate, to her distant relative William Daker Harley (1846-1907), Brampton Bryan Hall, Herefordshire;

Michael Arthur Bass (1837-1909), Lord Burton, Rangemore Hall, Burton-on-Trent, by 1909;

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Harriett Georgina Burton (née Thornewill; d. 1931), Lady Burton;

Anonymous sale ("From the Collection of Mrs. Harley of Brampton Brian, Herefordshire"), London, Christie's, 4 May 1951, lot 48;

Where acquired by "Dance";

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 27 May 1959, lot 79;

John and Johanna Bass Collection, New York;

By whom bequeathed to the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, in 1963 (inv. no. 63.33).

W. McKay and W. Roberts, John Hoppner, London 1909, pp. 192-193, reproduced;

J. Farington, The Farington Diary, J. Grieg (ed.), vol. II, London 1923, p. 36;

The John and Johanna Bass Collection at Miami Beach, Florida, Miami 1973, cat. no. 33 (as Attributed to Hoppner);

K. Garlick, in M. Russell (ed.), Paintings and Textiles of the Bass Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection, Miami Beach 1990, p. 44, reproduced (as Hoppner).

London, Royal Academy, 1797, no. 167.

ENGRAVED

W. Henderson, mezzotint, 1902.