Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Inscribed (verso): Mrs. Alice Izard / formerly Alice Delancey / painted in London / by / Gainsborough / 1772
Provenance Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Izard, London and Charleston, S.C. (1772–1804); Mrs. Ralph Izard, Charleston and Philadelphia (1804–d. 1832); her daughter, Mrs. Allen (Anne) Deas, New York (1832–d. 1863); her daughter, Mrs. Robert (Charlotte) Watts, New York (1863–d. 1868); her son, Dr. Robert Watts, New York (1868–at least 1912; sold to King); David H. King Jr., New York (until d. 1916); his daughter, Jeanne King deRham, New York (1916–d. 1966)
Exhibition History Charleston. Gibbes Museum of Art. "In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad, 1740–1860," April 9–July 3, 1999, no. 11.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion," May 3–September 4, 2006, unnumbered cat. (p. 153).
References E[llis]. K. Waterhouse. "Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough." Walpole Society 33 (1948–50), p. 61, notes—in error—that according to Anna Wells Rutledge the painting had been destroyed in a fire in California.Gainsborough . London, 1958, p. 75, confuses it with another portrait that descended to Mrs. Henry Fulton, notes—in error—that it had been destroyed, and dates it probably to the 1770s.Artists in the Life of Charleston: Through Colony and State from Restoration to Reconstruction . reprint of 1949 ed., with a new preface. Columbia, S.C., 1980, p. 116, quotes a letter of 1774 from Ralph Izard to a friend in which the former mentions the portrait; draws attention to the fact that it is also listed in a codicil to Izard's will.in In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad, 1740–1860 . Exh. cat., Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C. Columbia, S.C., 1999, pp. 31, 112–15, no. 11, colorpl. p. 113.British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575–1875 . New York, 2009.
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