The Assizes of Westminster Hall

Probably H.A.J. (Hugh Andrew Johnstone) Munro of Novar [1794-1865], London and Novar, Highland, Scotland.{1} Earl of Lonsdale, Lowther, Penrith [1867- 1953]; sale, Christie's, London in 1952.{2} probably directly to (Leggatt Brothers, London);{3} probably (Hirschl & Adler, New York), by 1956 .{4} (Max Safron, New York); {5} Mr. Joseph Irwin Miller, Columbus, Indiana in 1956; given to the IMA in 1987 (1987.180). {1}The 1952 auction catalogue cited below in footnote 2 lists H.A.J. Munro, Esq, as the owner of the painting in 1867. This painting may therefore have been in the auction at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, Modern Portion of the celebrated collection of pictures, formed with well-known taste by that eminent amateur, H.A.J. Munro, 11 May 1867, although this has not yet been verified. It does appear in the collection catalogue prepared by William Frost and Henry Reeve, Catalogue of the Paintings, Water-colour Drawings, and Prints, in the collection of the late Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro, Esq. of Novar, London?, Privately printed, 1865, no.158. {2}Christie's, London, Pictures by Old Masters, the properties of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale, O.B.E., The Viscount Gage [etc], 7 March 1952, lot. 32. {3}Correspondence exists from October-November 1956 between Oscar Johnson, President of Leggatt Brothers, London, the Hogarth scholar R.B. Beckett and a "Mr. Hirschl" - presumably Norman Hirschl of Hirschl & Adler -- about this painting, see IMA Historical File (1987.180). {4} Oscar Johnson identifies the painting as belonging to "Mr. Hirschl" in the 1956 correspondence. {5}The correspondence cited in footnote 3 was sent to Mr. J. Irwin Miller by Max Safron on 16 November 1956, see IMA Historical File (1987.180).