Provenance

• 1870s: possibly acquired by Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892), Liverpool and London;
• 1892: possibly sold at auction, Christie's, London, 28 May 1892 (lot 2) as 'Study of a Girl', bought by the Fine Art Society, or (lot 4) as 'Portrait of a Girl', bought by Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915), London dealer.
• By 1904: owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York.
• By 1918: bought from Scott and Fowles, New York, by Albert Eugene Gallatin (1882-1952).
• Before 1942: owned by Esther 'Hope' Kerrigan (née Slater) (1892-1951), New York, New York;
• 1942: sold at auction, Kerrigan sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 8-10 January 1942 (lot 28, repr.), bought by Charles Sessler (1854-1935), Philadelphia.
• 1951: given by Aaron Lobowich to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 12 April 1951.

Exhibitions

• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 184) as 'Sketch of a Girl'.