Provenance

• 1894: commissioned by Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), New York, and acquired in the following year;
• 1909: presented by the sitter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Exhibitions

• 1895: Loan Exhibition of Portraits for the Benefit of St. John's Guild and the Orthopædic Hospital, National Academy of Design, New York, 1895 (cat. no. 329) as 'Portrait Study'.
• 1896: 66th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1896 (cat. no. 336) as 'Portrait Study'.
• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 cat. no. (80) as 'Portrait of Man'.
• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 83) as 'Portrait of E. G. Kennedy, Esq.'