With new technology, carte-de-visite portraits could, it seemed, be bought on every London street corner.

For another wall, a portrait of a lady was bought at auction from the Keck collection.

Either portraits or inscriptions naming private individuals are very common, though other examples have no personalizing aspect and were perhaps just bought from a dealer's stock.

Following Manet's premature death in 1883, the portrait was bought in a studio sale by the artist John Singer Sargent.

She temporarily hangs with four other Klimts owned by the Bloch-Bauer heirs, from whom the portrait was bought.

But the portrait, together with an easel were bought by a businessman for more than three and a half thousand pounds.

A portrait in pastel done during the same visit was bought by Scribner and Sons, New York, in 1923.

This portrait was bought by a Frank K Lenthall, Esq.

The project was a succes and the portrait was bought by the museum in 2010 with the donation from the Augustinus Foundation.

Both portraits were bought by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in 2002.