Painted for the sitter's parents, John [d. 1795] and Lydia [d. 1822] Heathcote, Conington Castle, Huntingdonshire; by descent to their great-grandson, John Moyer Heathcote [1834-1912]; purchased 1913 from the Heathcote estate by (Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., London); sold the same year to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[1] sold c. 1913 to Herbert, 1st Baron Michelham [1851-1919], Hellingly, Sussex; (his estate sale, Hampton & Sons, on the premises, 20 Arlington Street, London, 23-24 November 1926, 2nd day, no. 292); Captain Jefferson Davis Cohn, Paris,[2] on behalf of (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold March or April 1927 to Alvan T. Fuller [1878-1958], Boston;[3] The Fuller Foundation, Boston; gift 1961 to NGA. [1] Agnew stock books, recorded by The Provenance Index, J. Paul Getty Trust, Santa Monica. [2] The Getty Provenance Index records Cohn as the buyer at the Michelham sale. See also Colin Simpson, _The Artful Partners: The Secret Association of Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen_, London, 1987: 179-180, for an account of Cohn's part in the sale. [3] An undated note in the NGA curatorial files records a telephone conversation between Ross Watson and Peter Fuller, son of Alvan T. Fuller, who said that his father purchased this painting in England, probably at Thomas Agnew & Sons in July 1927. However, the late Sir Geoffrey Agnew, in _Agnew's 1817-1967_ , London, 1967: 49, states that Governor Fuller of Boston was a faithful Agnew's client, that they acted on his behalf at many auctions, and that the only picture he ever bought from Duveen was a Gainsborough that Agnew's had failed to buy for him at the Michelham sale.