George Stubbs, A.R.A.

Samuel Jones-Loyd, Lord Overstone (1796–1883), London;

Thence by descent to his daughter, Harriet Sarah Loyd-Lindsay (née Jones-Loyd), Baroness Wantage (1837–1920), and her husband Robert Loyd-Lindsay, Baron Wantage (1832–1901);

By inheritance to Arthur Thomas Loyd (1882–1944), Wantage;

His posthumous sale ('A Portion of the Celebrated Collection of Paintings and Drawings, The Property of the late Rt Hon. Lord Wantage, V.C., K.C.B. now Sold by Order of the Executor of A.T. Loyd, Esq. (decd.)'), London, Sotheby's, 28 November 1945, lot 100, for £460, to Bernard;

With Arthur Ackermann & Son, London;

By whom sold to James Voase Rank (1881–1952), Druids Lodge, Wiltshire, by 1951;

With Arthur Ackermann & Son, London, by 1977;

Offered anonymously, on the premises, Park Paddocks, New Market, Christie's, 29 April 1988, lot 182;

Where acquired after the sale by the present collector.

Lady Wantage, MS catalogue of the collection at Lockinge, c. 1880, no. 226;

A.G. Temple, A Catalogue of the Pictures Forming the Collection of Lord and Lady Wantage, London 1902, p. 146, no. 226 (kept at Overstone Park);

A Catalogue of pictures forming the collection of Lord and Lady Wantage at 2 Carlton Gardens, London, Lockinge House, Berks, and Overstone Park and Ardington House, London 1905, p. 157, no. 226 (kept at Overstone Park);

M. Weaver, Whisper of the Muse. The Overstone Album & Other Photographs, Malibu 1986, p. 18;

B. Taylor, Stubbs, London 1971, p. 214, no. 115 reproduced pl. 115;

J. Egerton, George Stubbs, Painter. Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London 2007, pp. 508–9, no. 276 reproduced in colour.

Manchester, City Art Gallery, Art Treasures, 1857, no. 98;

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, George Stubbs 1724–1806, 13 July – 25 August 1951, no. 68.