Commissioned by the sitter's husband, Francis Basset,[1] and probably remained in his family, descending through the owners of Tehidy, the family estate near Camborne, Cornwall, to A.F. Basset; sold 1907 to (Asher Wertheimer, London). (Thos. Agnew and Sons, London), in 1908.[2] Sir George Donaldson [1845-1925], London; sold to William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York, by 1916;[3] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] When Francis Basset had portraits of himself (NGA 2014.79.705) and his wife painted around 1786, he was 1st baron Basset of Stratton. He was created 1st baron de Dunstanville a decade later, in 1796. [2] The date of the Basset sale to Wertheimer and the date when the painting was with Agnew's are from Ellis Waterhouse, "Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough," _Walpole Society_ 33 [1948-1950] (1953): 33, and Ellis Waterhouse, _Gainsborough_, London, 1958: 64, no. 219. The "A.F. Basset" name given by Waterhouse is most likely Arthur Francis Basset (1873-1950), the fourth owner of Tehidy after the sitter, who sold the estate in 1915. The entry for the painting in Dana H. Carroll, _Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue_, Part I, unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 141, no. 91, lists M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York, but not Basset or Agnew's. [3] Letter, 27 March 1916, Clark to C. Powell Minnigerode of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in which he mentions the two Gainsboroughs that Minnigerode "saw in my gallery"; copy in NGA curatorial files.