Robert Napier [1791-1876], Glasgow, by 1865;[1] (his sale, Shandon Collection, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 13 April 1877, no. 469); J. M. Anderson.[2] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 15 June 1901, no. 42); Wallis.[3] (V. G. Fischer Fine Art Co., Washington);[4] purchased by May 15, 1905 by William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York;[5] bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, as _Marine_; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] The painting is no. 413 in the _Catalogue of the Works of Art Forming the Collection of Robert Napier, of West Shandon, Dumbartonshire_, London, 1865, compiled by J. C. Robinson. [2] According to M.S. Robinson, _Van de Velde: A Catalogue of the Paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem van de Velde_, 2 vols., London, 1990: 2:842-843, repro. [3] See Algernon Graves, _Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century_, 3 vols., London, 1921: 3:278. [4] According to Dana H. Carroll, _Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue_, part 1, unpublished manuscript, no. 135. The work is no. 495 in C. Hofstede de Groot, _A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century_, 8 vols., London, 1923: 7: 126. It is mistakenly identified as having been acquired by Clark from Gottfried von Preyer of Vienna. See Robinson 1990 for more information. [5] Althought records from the Corcoran indicate that Clark purchased the work in 1906, a 1905 review of his collection on loan to the Corcoran Gallery refers to "a marine by Van de Velde." (James Henry Moser, “American Collections: The W. A. Clark Collection at the Corcoran Art Gallery," _The Collector and Art Critic_Vol. 3, No. 7 (May 15, 1905):104.