Mary Beale

James Sotheby II of Hackney and Sewardstone (1655–1720), by whom commissioned;[1]

Lt.-Col. Herbert George Sotheby (1871–1954), by family descent;

Sotheby’s, the Trustees of the Sotheby Estate, London, ‘The Sotheby Heirlooms II sale’, 12 October 1955, lot 72 (as ‘Portrait of Sarah Gooding, three-quarter length, by Mary Beale’);

‘Wiggins’, acquired for £25.00;[2]

Private collection, UK;

Mallams, Oxford, 8 March 2023, lot 186 (as ‘Circle of Mary Beale, Portrait of a Lady Wearing a Brown Dress’);

Philip Mould & Company, London, acquired from the above;
Tate, London, acquired from the above 2024.

[1] London, National Art Library [hereafter NAL], ‘Notebooks Compiled by James Sotheby and His Descendants, 1674–1882’, MSL/1955/2715-2730.

[2] Probably Arnold Wiggins & Sons of Bury Street, London.