The sitter, Other Archer Windsor, 6th Earl of Plymouth (1789–1833), Grosvenor Square, London 

By descent to his wife, Mary Countess of Plymouth (née Sackville) (1792–1864), Knole House, Kent, United Kingdom

By descent to the Earls Amherst [1]

[Frank T. Sabin, London, by 1935]

[John Levy Galleries, New York]

Dr. David and Mrs. Mabelle (née Lewis) Armstrong-Taylor (d. 1953), San Francisco 

By descent to the latter’s second husband, Donald McLeod Lewis (d. 1964), La Dolphine, Hillsborough, California 

Bequest to the de Young Memorial Museum, 1965

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

[1] Through Mary, Countess of Plymouth’s second marriage to William Pitt, 1st Earl Amherst (1773–1857), stepfather of her first husband.

London, Frank T. Sabin, 1935. “Spring Exhibition Silver Jubilee: English XVIIIth Century Paintings,” no. 11.2. 

Los Angeles, The Art Galleries of the University of California, January 20–February 23, 1958; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, March 7–April 6, 1958. “California Collects: North and South,” no. 24.

Sabin, Sidney F., Spring Exhibition Silver Jubilee: English XVIIIth Century Paintings, exh. cat., London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935, no. 11.2. 

Garlick, Kenneth, Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings, Oxford: Phaidon, 1989, pg. 254, no. 654, repr.