The latest attribution suggests that this portrait was painted by Antonio David after Pesci's portrait of James. It appears that it may well have been another casualty of the French Revolution; originally it was housed in the Scots College, Paris having been given to the College by the 2nd Earl of Middleton, an avid supporter of the exiled Stuart monarch. There is written evidence that, following damage, it had to be re-lined in 1816. This could be as a result of having been taken out of its original frame in an attempt to avoid its destruction at the hands of the mob in Paris in earlier years.