George Romney

Painted for the sitter, Mrs. Elizabeth Charnock, London, 1795;

Probably by whom sent to her parents, John and Henrietta Parish, Hamburg;

Arthur Sanderson, Edinburgh, by 1897;

By whom anonymously sold ("The Property of a Gentleman in Scotland"), London, Christie's, 3 July 1908, lot 85;

Where acquired by "Fischoff";

With Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, 1913;

T. J. Blakeslee, New York;

From whom acquired by T. B. Walker, Minneapolis, 1912;

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;

By whom deacessioned ("The Property of The Walker Art Center"), New York, Parke-Bernet, 21 April 1971, lot 187;

Where acquired by John and Johanna Bass, New York;

By whom bequeathed to the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, in 1978 (inv. no. 79.320).

C. Monkhouse, "A Northern Art Patron II - The British Portraits," in Art Journal (February 1897), p. 35;

T.H. Ward and W. Roberts, Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonne of his Works, London/New York 1904, vol. I, p. 74; vol. II, p. 28;

The John and Johanna Bass Collection at Miami Beach, Miami 1973, cat. no. 320;

K. Garlick, in Paintings and Textiles of the Bass Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection, M. Russell (ed.), Miami 1990, p. 70, reproduced;

A. Kidson, George Romney: A complete catalogue of his paintings, New Haven/London 2015, vol. I, p. 123, cat. no. 230, reproduced. 

Paris, Galerie Sedelmeyer, 12th Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters, 1913, no. 96;

St. Paul, Minnesota, St. Paul Institution, April 1920;

Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, British Portraits from the Collection of the Bass Museum of Art, 1993-1994.