Aynscough Fawkes, Farnley Hall, Otley, Yorkshire, United Kingdom, by 1886
[T.C. Farrer, London, by 1887]
Purchased by Hamilton McKay Twombly (1849-1910), New York, 1887
By descent to Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly (1885-1954), New York
Sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, 8 January 1955, lot 393, as “Duchess of Arenberg and Child”
[Purchased by David M. Koester Gallery, New York]
Sold to Roscoe Oakes, San Francisco, 1955
Gift to the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1958
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972

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