Commissioned from the artist by Alfred Brooks; his estate sale Christie's, London, May 17, 1879, lot 77 to William Vokins [according to annotated copy of sale catalogue at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown]. English private collection; sold Sotheby's, London, March 12, 1997, lot 75, bought by Agnew's and the Maas Gallery, London; sold to John Schaeffer, Sydney, Australia, 1998 [according to Martha Wolff's email correspondence with Gabriel Naughton, Agnew's, March 26, 2003]; sold to the Art Institute through Nevill Keating Pictures Ltd., London, 2003.