Provenance
Thomas Cobbe (1733-1814), Newbridge House, Donabate, near Dublin, by 1770
gift 1810, with the Cobbe estates and painting collection, to his grandson, Charles Cobbe (1782-1857)
sold 1839 through Michael Gernon to Thomas Brown, London
sold 4 April 1840 to Robert Stayner Holford, M.P. (1808-1892), Dorchester House, London, and Westonbirt, Gloucestershire
by inheritance to his son, Lieut.-Col. Sir George Lindsay Holford, K.C.V.O. (1860-1926)
purchased 1901 through Charles Wertheimer, London by
J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York
by inheritance to his son, J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York
consigned February 1935 to
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
sold 13 December 1935 to
Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 24 June 1937 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA