Provenance

• 1851/1852: given to Maria Whitman Bailey (1836-1852), West Point, NY;
• 1852: inherited by her father, Professor Jacob Whitman Bailey (1811-1857);
• 1857: bequeathed to his son, Dr Loring Woart Bailey (1839-1925), Fredericton, NB;
• 1925: bequeathed to his daughter, Laurestine Maria Bailey (1875-1961), Fredericton, NB;
• 1958: bought through her nephew Marshall D'Avray West (1901-1969), by William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964);
• 1964: bequeathed to his widow, Marcia Anastasia Aitken, Lady Beaverbrook, née Christoforides (1909-1994);
• 1970: bought from Lady Beaverbrook by the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 84); this record has been corrected.

Exhibitions

As far as is known, this was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.