Provenance

• 1881/1884: probably drawn for Amy Leslie Worth (Mrs Matthew Forster) (1852-1904);
• 1904: passed to her daughter Yvonne Isabella Forster (1877-1965), who married Harry Dyson (1853-1921);
• 1965: bequeathed to her daughter, Maud Eliza Dyson (1909-1986).
• 2013: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to Colby College Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 108) as 'Portrait of Miss Yvonne Forster'.