It is now at Woburn
Abbey (Cat. No. 254). At Knole, Lord Sackville possesses another version
(Cat. No. 239), which was purchased in 1773 by the Countess Delawarr,
and was shown at South Kensington in 1867. Here the dress is a black
coat and a brown mantle with fur. The present owner exhibited it at the
Guelph Exhibition of 1891. A third version, now in the Irish National
Gallery, once belonged to Goldsmith himself, and then to his
brother-in-law, Daniel Hodson. Finally there is a copy, by a pupil of
Reynolds, in the National Portrait Gallery, to which it was bequeathed
in 1890 by Dr. Leifchild, having formerly been the property of Caleb
Whitefoord. Caleb Whitefoord also had an 'admirable miniature' by
Reynolds, which belongs to the Rev. Benjamin Whitefoord, Hon. Canon of
Salisbury ('Whitefoord Papers', 1898, p. xxvii). A small circular print,
based upon Reynolds, and etched by James Basire, figures on the
title-page of 'Retaliation'. Some of the plates are dated April 18,
1774.
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