Painted in Rome before 14 November 1752; given by Wilson to Ralph Howard (Viscount Wicklow from 1785) together with seven other paintings ordered by him and described by the artist as 'a head to match the Capuchin' (P39 Head of a Capuchin Monk, Leicester Museum & Art Gallery); Earls of Wicklow; perhaps 'A Head of St Jerome - Wilson', in an undated inventory (pre-1820), though this may refer to P39; sold with the contents of Shelton Abbey, Arklow, Co. Wicklow, Ireland at Sotheby's London, 23 October 1950 (1595 as by Denner); bt Father D.J. Lucey; Sotheby's 1 December 1954 (146), bt Leger; bt by the Welsh Steel Company, later subsumed by British Steel
