Provenance

• ca 1885: probably given by Whistler to Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) , London, who owned it in 1907.
• 1964: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 16 December 1964 (lot 5) as 'A Sheet of portrait studies', and bought by 'Farlow'.
• 1972: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 22 November 1972 (lot 19, repr.) as 'Portrait studies of the Artist, his brother Dr Whistler, & others.' and bought by MacLean, art dealer;
• 1973: sold in January by William Derby, London art dealer, to Davis and Long, New York dealers;
• 1973: with Meredith J. Long (n/a), Houston dealer, in July 1973;
• ca 1973: sold by Davis & Long to a private collector.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1016).

Exhibitions

No exhibition is known in Whistler's lifetime.