Provenance
Robert P. Nichols, London. William Graham [1817-1885], London; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 2-3 and 8-10 April 1886, 5th day, no. 450, as _Portrait of a Lawyer_); (Colnaghi's, London and New York). Henry Doetsch [1839-1894], London; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 and 24-25 June 1895, no. 48, as by Licinio); Radel.[1] George Kemp, 1st baron Rochdale [d. 1945], Beechwood Hall, Rochdale, Lancashire, by 1897 until at least 1905; purchased 1917 or 1918 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris).[2] Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York, 1920 until at least 1926.[3] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] The buyer's name was kindly provided by Lynda McLeod, Librarian, Christie's Archives, London (see her e-mail of 28 March 2013 in NGA curatorial files); no identifying information has yet been found.
[2] Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Los Angeles: reel 100, box 245, folder 12; copies in NGA curatorial files.
[3] According to _Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America_, New York, 1941: no. 153.
[4] According to Kress records in NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1709.
Accession Number
1939.1.258
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.) | framed: 108 x 93.7 x 8.6 cm (42 1/2 x 36 7/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Samuel H. Kress Collection