Exhibited Royal Scottish Academy, Glasgow, 1890, no. 250; sold by the artist to Mr and Mrs G. Simpson, Edinburgh, 1890[1]; their collection, Edinburgh, until 1921; with Dowell's (auction house), Edinburgh, February 1921; from where purchased, on the advice of Frank Rinder, for the Felton Bequest, 1921.
[1] The report recommending this purchase from Felton Bequest Adviser Frank Rinder quotes the artist stating this painting was sold in 1890.
Royal Scottish Academy, Glasgow, 1890, no. 250; Salon, Paris, 1892, no. 1107, as Berceuse[1]; Corporation of London Loan Exhibition, Guildhall, London, 1900, no. 100, lent by Mrs Simpson; Scottish National Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1908, no. 315, lent by Mrs Simpson; Twenty Years of British Art 1890–1910, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1910, no. 75, lent by Mrs G. Simpson; Exhibition of Pictures from the Southern States, Queensland Art Fund, Brisbane, 1930, no. 65; The First Fifty Years: Nineteenth Century British Art from the Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1992; Hidden Treasures, David Jones Gallery, Sydney, 1992.
[1] See Exposition des Beaux-Arts Catalogue illustre de Peinture et Sculpture: Salon de 1882, edited by Ludovic Baschet, Paris, accessed https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1892soci#page/n27/mode/2up. At this Salon, Lorimer is said have received ‘third medal’. See De Soissons, S. C., ‘John Henry Lorimer and his art’ in The Artist: An Illustrated Monthly Record of Arts, Crafts and Industries, published 1 August 1899, p. 115, accessed https://archive.org/stream/jstor-25581415/25581415#page/n3/mode/2up. It was previously recorded that this painting was again exhibited in the Salon of 1902, however a check of the catalogue revealed this to be incorrect.