By descent within the British royal family to Prince George, Duke of Kent [1902-1942];{1}to his widow, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent [1906-1968] in 1942; (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London) in 1965 or 1966; {2} purchased by the Herron Museum of Art, now Indianapolis Museum of Art, in 1966 (66.21B) with pendant, Portait of Queen Charlotte Sophia (66.21A)

{1}The exhibition catalog by Donald Blake Webster, Georgian Canada: Conflict and Culture, 1745-1820, Royal Ontario Museum, 1984, p. 86, cat. nos. 62, 63, states that "this pair of portraits was probably purchased from Ramsay by the king [and] were given to his fourth son, Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn."
{2}Letter from Evelyn Joll of Thos. Agnew and Sons, London, to Mrs. G.H.A. Clowes, Indianapolis, dated 14 July 1966, copy in IMA Historical File (66.21A and B). The portraits were first offered to Mrs. Clowes, who forwarded the information to Carl Weinhardt, then director of the Herron Museum of Art.