Commissioned by the sitter’s father, Sir John Gibson-Carmichael of Skirling, sixth Bt. (died 1803); by descent to Sir Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, eleventh Bt., first baron Carmichael (died 1926); sold Sotheby’s, London, June 8-10, 1926, no. 496, ill., to Duveen, Paris and New York, for £8,800 [annotated copy of the sale catalogue, Ryerson Library, Art Institute of Chicago]. Mrs. John R. Thompson, Sr., Chicago, by 1930 [Frankfurter 1930]; sold Parke-Bernet, New York, January 15, 1944, no. 33, ill., to her daughter, Florence Thompson Thomas (died 1972), Palm Beach, Florida; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1973.