David Bindman, Hogarth, Thames & Hudson, p. 150, no. 114, , NJ18.H67 B56 2021 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 182-183, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)
Provenance:
Commissioned by Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck (1706-1782) the sitter, from Allan Ramsay (1713-1784), the artist; by descent to his son James Boswell (1740-1795); by descent to his son Alexander Boswell MP (1775-1822); by descent to his daughter Janet Theresa Boswell (after 1799-1836) and her husband William Francis Eliott (1792-1864); by descent to her son Alexander Boswell Eliott (1830-1882); by descent to his son Arthur Augustus Boswell Eliott (1856-1926); by descent to his son Gilbert Alexander Boswell Eliott (1885-1958); by descent to his son Sir Arthur Francis Boswell Eliott (1915-1989); , his sale Sotheby’s, July 1972; acquired by Colnaghi, London; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), 1965 [a]; by whom gifted to the Yale Center for British of Art, 1981 [b]. Citations: --- [a] Cormack, Malcolm, A concise catalogue of paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, 1985, New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Center for British Art, 1985, p.182 --- [b] ditto