Provenance

• 1886: bought by Clara Sophia Jessup Blomfield-Moore (Mrs B. H. Moore) (1824-1899) , 12 Great Stanhope Street, London;
• 1900: sold at her estate sale, Christie's, London, 5 May 1900 (lot 1) as 'A beach scene with fishing boats out at sea', bought by Boussod, Valadon & Cie, [Goupil], London dealers.
• 1946: bought from William Macbeth, New York dealer, in November, by Mrs C. R. Hotchkiss, later Carolyn Glendenin Foulke (née Ryan) (1910-1987) , New York and (in the 1960s) Florida;
• 1987: sold at auction, Sotheby''s, New York, 28 May 1987 (lot 4, repr.) as 'Beach at Dieppe', and bought by Hirschl and Adler, New York dealers;
• By 1990: possibly sold to an art dealer in Atlanta, and subsequently to a private collector.
• 2005: given by James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as part of the The James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Collection.

There are considerable gaps in this provenance. For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 893); this record has been updated.

Exhibitions

• 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 62) as 'Green and silver – The Bright Sea, Dieppe'.