Sir Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford (1753-1814)

Artists

Dimensions

75.7 x 62.7 cm (29 13/16 x 24 11/16 in.) framed: 99.8 x 88 cm (39 5/16 x 34 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Commissioned from the artist by the sitter, Benjamin Thompson, London, August/September 1783. Possibly Miss Cox [?], England, by inheritance; to Winterbottom family, c. 1830/40, by descent; to Augustus Winterbottom, sold; to Edmund C. Converse, Greenwich, CT, 1910, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1921.