The sitter, Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland (later Marchioness Wellesley) (1760?-1816), United Kingdom
By descent to her daughter Hyacinthe Mary Littleton, Lady Hatherton (1789?-1849), Teddesley Hall, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Hatherton family, Teddesley Hall, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, until the 1930s
Lord Sanderson of Ayot (1894-1971), by 1964
Sold, London, Christie’s, June 26, 1964, lot 74
[Duits Ltd., London, by 1965] [1]
[Schaeffer Galleries, New York, by 1967] [2]
[M. Wildenstein] [3]
Elizabeth Parke Firestone (1897–1990), Newport, Rhode Island
Her sale, New York, Christie’s, March 22, 1991, lot 654
[Purchased by Guy Sainty] [4]
[Colnaghi, New York]
Sold to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1991

[1] Duits, Quarterly 9, no. 9 (Winter 1965): 12.
[2] [3] Per Christie’s 1991, p. 110.
[4] Per curatorial note, object file, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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