Commissioned in 1788 by the sitter's husband, Sir William Lemon, first baronet, Carclew, Cornwall; by descent through his youngest daughter, Caroline-Mathilda, to his grandson Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Tremayne (1827-1905), Carclew, 1882-1904 or later; [Lewis and Simmons, London], 1919; [Duveen Brothers, New York]; Edward T. Stotesbury, Phildelphia, by 1932; Stotesbury sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 November 1944, lot 8, ill. Purchased by Robert Lehman at the Stotesbury sale in 1944.
