By descent in the family until “Sir A. Napier” [1]

Sold, London, Christie, Manson & Woods, May 3, 1902, lot 59

[Purchased by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London] [2]

[Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1906] [3]

[Thomas Agnew & Sons, London]

Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia

[Lewis and Simmons, Inc., New York, 1922]

Mrs. Francis E. Drury

Sold, New York, Anderson Galleries, January 18, 1934, lot 56

[Julius H. Weitzner, New York]

Sold to the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1935

Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972 

[1] Per annotated copy of Christie, Manson & Wood 1902, Getty Research Institute, 2617-539. 

[2] Ibid. 

[3]Per Anderson Galleries 1934, lot 56.

Christie, Manson & Woods, Highly Important Pictures by Old Masters and the Early English School, Auction Catalogue, London: Christie, Manson & Woods, May 3, 1902, lot 59. 

Grieg, James, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., London: The Connoisseur, 1911, pg. 55.

Graves, Algernon, Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century, vol. 2, London: A. Graves, 1921, pg. 363. 

Anderson Galleries, Paintings of Various Schools, Auction catalogue, New York: Anderson Galleries, January 18, 1934, pg. 32, lot 56, repr. 

M. H. de Young Memorial Museum: Illustrations of Selected Works, San Francisco: M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1950.