Giovanni Battista Lampi

Commissioned by the sitter, Charles Whitworth (1752-1825), 1st Earl of Whitworth, by 1790;

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Arabella Diana Cope (1767-1826), Countess of Whitworth and Duchess of Dorset, Knole House, Kent;

Probably thence by descent to her daughter from her first marriage, Mary Sackville (1792-1864), Countess of Plymouth, Knole House, Kent;

Probably thence by inheritance to her sister, Elizabeth Sackville (1795-1870), Countess De La Warr, Knole House, Kent;

Radziwill collection, Château d'Ermenonville, Oise;

Anonymous sale of the contents of the Château d'Ermenonville, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 8 March 1933, lot 13;

Where acquired by "M. Bensimon," for 15,600 francs;

Private collection, Europe;

By whom anonymously sold ("Collection d'un grand amateur européen"), Paris, Christie's, 14 December 2004, lot 213;

With Galerie Neuse, Bremen, by 2006;

By whom anonymously sold, London, Sotheby's, 4 December 2014, lot 219;

Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.

A. Casagrande, in Un ritrattista nell´Europa delle corti Giovanni Batista Lampi 1751–1830, exhibition catalogue, F. Mazzocca, R. Pancheri, and A. Casagrande (eds.), Trent 2001, pp. 65-67, reproduced fig. 58 (from an engraving, as untraced).

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By Johann Peter Pichler, 1790

Possibly Vienna, Accademia di Belle Arti, 1790.