Thomas Faed

James Horne Esq., by 1852;

Anonymous sale, Edinburgh, Sotheby's, 26 April 2007, lot 3;

Where acquired.

Mary McKerrow, The Faeds, A Biography, 1982, p. 152.

London, Royal Academy, 1851, no. 811

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1852, no. 47

Exhibited in 1851 with Cottage Piety and an illustration to Auld Robin Gray, The First Step was one of the first paintings Faed showed at the Royal Academy in London.