Painted in Rome for Stephen Beckingham VI (1730 or 1731-1813), 1752, and then br𒅌ought to London;

Thence by descent to his daughter, the Hon. Dorothy Charlotte🌞 Montagu 🌞(1766-1821);

Thence by inheritance to Catherine Greg🗹orie Brickdale (1788-1870);

Thence by descent to her son, Mathew Inglett Forte🐼scue-Brickdale (1817-1894), 💧Quantock Farm, Somerset;

Thence by descent to his son, Charles Fortescue-Bri♊ckdale (1857-1944);

Thence by💛 descent to his son, Matthew Fortescue-Brickdale (1890-1969);

Thence 💛transferred to the Matthew Fortescue-Brickdale Will Trust;

By whom sold ("The Property of the Matthew Forte𓄧scue-Brickdale Will Trust"), London, Christie's, 22 November 1985, lot 119;

With Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York, 1986;

Acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, circa 1998.

A.M. Clark, in Pompeo Batoni, A.M. Clark (ed.), Oxford 1985, p. 254, cat. no. 164, reproduced f𓄧ig. 154;

M. Rutenberg, in An Aspect of Collecting Taste, exhibition catalogue,ꦑ New York 1986, pp. 29-30, cat. no. 9, reproduced;

B. Ford and J. Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800, New Haven 1997, p. 73;

E.P. Bowron, in Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, E.P. Bowron and J.J. Ris༺hel (eds.), Philadelphia 2000, p. 299;

I. Mcintyre, Joshua Reynolds, The Life and Times of the First President of the Royal Academy, London 2003, p. 49 note;

E. Debenedetti, "Un'idea di Roma, 1750-1823, La linea teorica dell'architettura," in Architetti e ingegneri a confronto, I, l'immagine di Roma fra Clemente XIII e Pio VII, E. Debenedetti (ed.), Rome 2006, p. 16;

E.P. Bowron and P.B. Kerber, in Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome, exhibition catalogue, E.P. Bowron and P.B. Kerber (eds.), New Haven 2007, ಞp. 38;

L. Barroero, "Non solo 'Milordi'. La società romana nei ritratti di Batoni," in Pompeo Batoni, 1708-1787, L'Europa delle Corti e il Grand Tour, exhibition catalogue, L. Barroero and F. Mazzocca (eds.), Mi𝓰lan 2008, p. 86;

E.P. Bowron, Pompeo Batoni, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London 201🎶6, vol. I, pp. 181-182, cat. no. 157, reproduced.