Provenance
William Beckford (1760-1844), Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, and Bath, England
probably by inheritance to Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), Hamilton Palace, Strathclyde, who married Beckford's daughter, Susan Euphenia (died 1859)
by inheritance to his son, William Alexander Anthony Archibald Douglas (1811-1863), 11th Duke of Hamilton, Hamilton Palace, Strathclyde, Scotland
by inheritance to his son, William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton (1845-1895), 12th Duke of Hamilton, Hamilton Palace, Strathclyde, Scotland
Hamilton Palace sale, Christie, Manson & Wood, London, 1 July 1882, nr. 756
with
Colnaghi, London and New York
possibly the Hon. Francis Barry, by 1893
Thomas Glen Arthur (1857-1907), Ayr, Strathclyde, Scotland
sold 1906 to Colnaghi, London and New York on joint account with
M. Knoedler & Co., London and New York
sold 1910 to Victor G. Fischer, Washington, D.C.
sold 1912 back to Colnaghi, London and New York, possibly on joint account with M. Knoedler & Co., London and New York
sold 1926 to Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Rome and Florence
sold 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1961 to NGA