John William Godward

Thomas Mclean, London, by 19 March 1907;

Probably William Francis Darnell (d. 1918), Devonshire House, Stamford Hill, London;

Thence by descent to Miss Sarah Darnell (d. 1925), 161 Stamford Hill, London;

By whose Executors sold, London, Christie's, 15 March 1925, lot 57;

W.W. Sampson, London, of The British Galleries, London;

Private collection, UK;

Anonymous sale, London, Bonhams, 26 September 2018, lot 106;

Where acquired by a US private collection.

McLean letter to Godward, 19 March 1907 (Milo-Turner collection);

E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Paris 1976, vol. I, p. 80;

V.G. Swanson, John William Godward, The Eclipse of Classicism, Suffolk 1997, p. 218, no. 2 (as Dolce far niente [Girl with a bunch of grapes]).