The sitter, James Hatch, Esq. Clayberry Hall, Essex (1783-1804)

By descent to his brother-in-law, William Rufus Rous, Esq. (1796-1875), Worstead House, Norfolk (d. 1875) [1]

By descent to the Honorable William Keith Rous, Worstead House, Norfolk

His sale, London, Christie’s, 29 June 1934, lot 51

[Carroll Carstairs and Daniel H. Farr, New York]

Sold to Henry K.S. Williams, New York and San Francisco, for the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1942

Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972

[1] Husband of Louisa Hatch, sitter’s sister.

London, The Royal Academy of Arts, 1797. “Summer Exhibition,” no. 196.

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, January 16–February 14, 1954. “George Washington’s World,” no. 102. 

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Christie, Manson & Woods, Pictures by old masters; drawings by T. Rowlandson; old pictures and drawings, London: Christie, Manson & Woods, June 29, 1934, lot 51, repr. 

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California Palace of the Legion of Honor: Illustrated Handbook of the Collections, San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1942, repr. pg. 59, pg. 89; 1944, repr. pg. 69, pg. 106; 1946, repr. pg. 75, pg. 112.

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Graves, Algernon, The Royal Academy of Arts; a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, vol. 1, New York: Burt Franklin, 1970, pg. 161. 

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