Collection Details
Louis Miller, 1878; 1st Lord Faringdon by 1905; included in his sale, Sotheby’s, 13 June 1934, lot 137, when it was bought by Lord Faringdon.
Literature
M S Watts, Watts, 1912, ii, pp.44–5.
Exhibition Details
Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1878, No.265; RA, Winter, 1905, No.230.
Background
According to M S Watts, the model known as ‘long Mary’, who sat to the artist from the early 1860s for several years, inspired the present work.