E. Walter Joynson
Sale, London, Christie’s, 16 May 1885, lot 100
Purchased by ‘Grindley’
Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet (1831-1923), by 1887
Thence by descent to Sir Stephen Lycett Green, 4th Baronet (1910-1996)
His sale, London, Christie’s, 6 June 1997, lot 43
Purchased by a private collection, Australia
Sold [via Nevill Keating Pictures and Michael Tollemache Fine Art, London] to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2002

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