Edward William Cooke, R.A.

Purchased from the artist by Duncan Dunbar (1803–1862), London;

By whose Trustees sold, London, Christie's, 5 May 1894, lot 87, to Webly, for 52 guineas;

With Frost & Reed, London;

From whom acquired by the present owners in March 1997.

J. Munday, E.W. Cooke 1811–1880: A Man of his Time, Woodbridge 1996, p. 351, no. 4 (mistakenly dated as 1858).