Portrait of Mrs. Andrew Hay
Henry Raeburn (Scottish, 1756–1823)

Commissioned from the artist by the husband of the sitter, Major General Andrew Hay (1762–1814), Mount Blairey, Scotland, c. 1795¬–1814;
By descent in the family to Hay’s great grandson, Commander Thomas Edward Hall Maxwell, R.N.
Purchased at sale, The Honorable Wm. Lawther and Other Collections Sale, Christie’s, London, May 10, 1912, lot 52, as property of a gentleman, by Duveen Brothers, New York.
Edward T. Stotesbury (1849–1938), Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, by 1926 [1];
Inherited by his wife, Lucetia Stotesbury (née Roberts), Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, May 17, 1938¬–1941;
Consigned by Lucetia Stotesbury to James St. L. O’Toole, New York, on joint account with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1941;
Purchased from James St. L. O’Toole and M. Knoedler & Co., through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha Nebraska, 1941.

[1] This owner lent the work to the Second Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: British Paintings of the Late Eighteen and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Detroit Institute of Arts, January 18–31, 1926, no. 27.

Special Loan Exhibition of Old Masters of the British School, Duveen Brothers, New York, January 1914, no. 16.

Second Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: British Paintings of the Late Eighteen and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Detroit Institute of Arts, January 18–31, 1926, no. 27.

Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, December 1932, lent by Edward T. Stotesbury.

M. Knoedler & Co., New York, June 10–29, 1940, no. 8.

Masterpieces of Art, New York World’s Fair, April 30, 1939–October 27, 1940, no. 145.

Exhibition of Paintings and Works of Art from the Collection of the Late Edward T. Stotesbury, James St. L. O’Toole Galleries, New York, April 23–May 10, 1941, no. 1.

Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, December 1941–January 1942.

18th Century Art of France and England, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, April 27–May 31, 1950.

Notable Collections at Joslyn, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 30, 1956–January 1, 1957.

Special Loan Exhibition of Old Masters of the British School, exh. cat. (New York: Duveen Galleries, New York, 1914) no. 16.

Second Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: British Paintings of the Late Eighteen and Early Nineteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1926), no. 27, (repro.).

Henri Marceau, “The Stotesbury Collection,” Pennsylvania Museum of Art Bulletin 28 (1932): 21, (repro.).

Exhibition of Paintings and Works of Art from the Collection of the Late Edward T. Stotesbury, exh. cat. (New York: James St. L. O’Toole, 1941), no. 1, (repro.).

Art Digest 16, January 1, 1942, 12.

Art News 40, January 1–14, 1942, 19.

18th Century Art of France and England, exh. cat. (Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1950), 4, 9, (repro.).

A Treasury of Art Masterpieces (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952), (repro.).

Philip Gurney, “Raeburn Filled Void in Scotland’s Art Growth,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, June 16, 1960, 48, (repro.)

Richard E. Ahblorn, “Henry Raeburn, Delineator of Feminine Mystique,” Omaha World-Herald, June 13, 1965, (repro.).

John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, a Comprehensive Guide to Locating and Enjoying over 300 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), 220, 221, (repro.).

Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 65, 66–67, (repro.).

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 119–20, (repro.).