Baron Bexley

Nicholas Vansittart, Baron Bexley [1766-1851], Foots Cray Place, Kent, England [1]; by descent to Captain Robert Arnold Vansittart [1851-1938], North Cray House, Kent, England [2]; M. Knoedler & Co., New York City, 1917 [3]; purchased by Daniel G. Reid [1858-1925], New York City, February 1917 [4]; the Reid Topping family, Greenwich, Connecticut [5]. With Newhouse Galleries, New York City, 1950s; purchased by Harvey Pride, Memphis, Tennessee [6]. (Sotheby’s Sale, New York City, December 2, 1976, no. 11) [7]; purchased by Oklahoma Museum of Art; transferred to Oklahoma City Art Museum, 1989; transferred to Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2002.

[1] The sitter
[2] Gower, Lawrence (1900), pg. 111; Knoedler, Sales Book 11 (1917), no. 13895; and Sotheby’s, Catalog (1976), no. 11; Nicholas Vansittart had no children nor any nieces or nephews, so the painting passed to a descendant of his uncle (Robert Arnold Vansittart is the son of Robert Vansittart [1811-1872], the son of Arthur Vansittart [1775-1829], the son of Arthur Vansittart [1725-1804], the brother of Henry Vansittart [1733-ca.1770], the father of Nicholas Vansittart)
[3] Knoedler, Sales Book 11 (1917), no. 13895
[4] Knoedler, Sales Book 11 (1917), no. 13895 and records from Newhouse Galleries, New York City, dated March 10, 1977
[5] Records from Newhouse Galleries, New York City, dated March 10, 1977
[6] Records from Newhouse Galleries, New York City, dated March 10, 1977
[7] Sotheby’s, Catalog (1976), no. 11