Provenance
by 1785 - 1801
Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd earl of Bessborough, 1758 - 1844 (Bessborough House, Surrey, England) [sold, Besborough sale, Christie's, London, February 7, 1801, lot 67* (lot added in by hand in annotated auction catalogues, in same lot as companion), to Charles Howard.]
Source: GRI, Provenance Index, Sale Catalogs Database, Sale Catalog Br-8, Lot 0067a[H].
1801 -
Charles Howard, 11th duke of Norfolk, 1746 - 1815 (Arundel Castle, Sussex, England)
Source: GRI, Provenance Index, Sale Catalogs Database, Sale Catalog Br-8, Lot 0067a[H].
by 1833 -
Henry Ralph Willett, 1786 - 1857 (England)
- 1919
Baroness Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill Guest Wimbourne, 1847 - 1927 (Canford Manor, Dorset, England) [sold, Wimborne sale, Christie's, London. June 20, 1919, lot 72 (in same lot as companion), to F. Holbrooke.]
1919 - 1930
Francis George Seymour Holbrooke, 1865 - 1937 (Bladon Castle, Burton on Trent, Stafford, England) [unsold, Holbrooke sale, Christie's, London. June 12, 1925, lot 153 (in same lot as companion)], sold to Leicester Galleries, Ernest Brown & Phillips, January 1930.
Source: Leicester Galleries, Ernest Brown & Phillips, London records.
1930 - 1936
The Leicester Galleries, Ernest Brown & Phillips (London, England), sold to Thorsten Laurin, January 1936.
Source: Leicester Galleries, Ernest Brown & Phillips, London records.
1936 - still in 1949
Thorsten Laurin, Swedish, 1875 - 1954 (Stockholm, Sweden)
Source: Leicester Galleries, Ernest Brown & Phillips, London records.
- 1959
Private Collection [sold, Sotheby's, London, July 15, 1959, lot 132 (in same lot as companion) through Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd. (London, England) to J. Paul Getty.]
1959 - 1976
J. Paul Getty, American, 1892 - 1976 (Malibu, California; Sutton Place, Surrey, England), upon his death, held in trust by the estate.
1976 - 1978
Estate of J. Paul Getty, American, 1892 - 1976, distributed to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1978.