Catalogue Entry

David Lewis Einstein, father of the sitter, by 1883 until at least 1893

Florence Einstein Seligman Walston, Cambridge, England, the sitter, by 1948

Artemis Gallery, London, by 1984 (as Young English Girl Reading)

[Christie's, June 1, 1984, lot 80 (as Young English Girl Reading)]

Unidentified buyer, June 1, 1984 (by purchase)

Present whereabouts unknown

National Academy of Design, New York, 1883. (Exhibition catalogue: NAD 1883), no. 348, as Portrait of a Child.

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, May 1–October 31, 1893. (World's Columbian Exposition 1893), no. 622, as Portrait of a Girl, lent by D. L. Einstein, New York.

World's Columbian Exposition. Revised Catalogue, Department of Fine Arts. Chicago: W. B. Gonkey Company, 1893. Exhibition catalogue (1893 Columbian Exposition), p. 53, no. 669, as Portrait of a Girl.

Spassky, Natalie, with Linda Bantel, Doreen Bolger Burke, Meg Perlman, and Amy L. Walsh. American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, p. 11, letter from Lewis Einstein to the Museum, 1948: "Eastman Johnson also painted about the same time [as my portrait] a portrait of my sister Lady Walston, then a girl of eight or nine & who is seated on the stairs. I believe that this portrait was exhibited, by the artist's request, at the Chicago World Fair. It is now in my sister's place 'Newton Hall' near Cambridge," p. 11, Spassky: "The portrait, which is in a private collection, is the same size as the one of Einstein and was probably intended as a companion to it. The paintings complement each other in the angular pose of the figures and the use of oblique planes and diagonals."