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.

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