Provenance

• By 1905: owned by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow;
• 1924: passed by family descent to his son, John Bernard MacGeorge (1897-1965), Glasgow;
• 1958: sold from the collection of J. B. MacGeorge, at auction, Morrison, M'Chlery, Glasgow, 16 May 1958 (lot 117) and bought by Roland, Browse & Delbanco.
• Date unknown: said to have been bought from an art dealer for Robert Owen Lehman (1891-1969).
• Date unknown: bought by a private collector.

Neither the early nor recent provenance is entirely clear. The Pennells however were wrong in thinking this was owned by Mrs Charles Julius Kino/Knowles (née Louisa Essinger) (b.1850, m.1874). 1

Exhibitions

• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 129) as 'Selsea Bill'.