The original of this painting is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight.
They were making a television programme where one painting was removed from the gallery wall and replaced with a copy. There were prizes at the end of the process if you correctly identified the intruder! I did a preliminary painting just to get the feel of the original and months later after the whole thing was over I modernised the face a little just for the fun of it.
I don’t know where my replacement work is now! Probably in the cellars of the gallery. Only 20% of visitors correctly spotted it as NOT being by Gainsborough which is a good thing and also not such a good thing. Giles Coren fronted the whole programme and he was a joy to work with. Very professional and good fun.