Perhaps (Maddox Street Gallery, London), in 1828. Mr. Gray, Ilkley, Yorkshire, after whose death it was bought 1839 by (John Chaplin, London);[1] probably purchased ca. 1839 by Andrew Fountaine [1808-1873], Narford Hall, King's Lynn, Norfolk;[2] by descent to Andrew Fountaine [b. 1918]; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 23 June 1972, no. 57); purchased by (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London) for Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1983 to NGA. [1] Descriptions of the work(s) owned by the Maddox Street Gallery and Mr. Gray quoted in W.G. Constable, _Richard Wilson_, London, 1953: 169, could apply equally well to the Washington picture and to an almost identical version in the M.D.G. Robinson collection (Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 16 April 1982, no. 60, bought in; formerly in the Col. M.H. Grant collection). [2] Sir Geoffrey Agnew to Paul Mellon, 2 May 1972, in NGA curatorial files. It was certainly in Fountaine's possession by 1854, when it was noted in G. F. Waagen, _Treasures of Art in Great Britain_, 4 vols., London, 1854: 3:431.