Provenance
Probably William Beckford (1760-1844), Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, and Bath, England
by inheritance to his son-in-law, Alexander Hamilton, 10th duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), Hamilton Palace, Strathclyde (near Glasgow), Scotland
by inheritance to his son, William Alexander Anthony Archibald Douglas, 11th duke of Hamilton (1811-1863), Hamilton Palace
by inheritance to his son, William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton, 12th duke of Hamilton (1845-1895), Hamilton Palace
Hamilton Palace sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 17, 19, and 20 June 1882, nr. 410, as Portrait of an Admiral in Armour by Tintoretto
with
P. and D. Colnaghi, London and New York
sold 1882 to Henry Bingham Mildmay (1828-1905), London, Shoreham Place, Kent, and Flete House, Devon
his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 24 June 1893, nr. 73, as Portrait of a Venetian Admiral by Tintoretto
purchased by
Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London for Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), Dalmeny House, Midlothian, Scotland
probably Albert Edward Harry Mayer Archibald Primrose, 6th earl of Rosebery (1882-1974), Dalmeny House
sold 1954 through
Wildenstein & Co., New York to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1957 to NGA