Sanford Robinson Gifford

John Thompson Wilson, Lexington, Virginia (acquired by 1880)

Josephine Burrell

Isabella Egenton Kinnan Burnham, New York (acquired as a gift from the above in 1882)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie's, New York, 22 November 2016, lot 36

Private Collection, Portsmouth (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above circa 2016 by the present owner

John F. Weird, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N. A., New York, 1881, no. 410, p. 31 (titled Sunset on the Sea)

Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, Delaware, 1987, pp. 162 and 243 (titled Sunset on the Seashore)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Memorial Collection of the Works of the Late Sanford R. Gifford, October 1880 - May 1881, no. 125, p. 10 (titled Sunset)