Nicholas Thomas Dall

Colwich Rectory, Colwich, Staffordshire;

E.F. Ames;

By whom sold, Christie's London, 4 July 1952, lot 106

Where acquired by "Appleby";

Laura, Duchess of Marlborough;

By whom sold ("The Property of Laura, Duchess of Marlborough"), London, Christie's, 19 November 1982, lot 36;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 18 November 1983, lot 77;

With Stair and Company, New York (as part of a trumeau mirror);

From whom acquired by a private collector, 1985;

By whom anonymously sold, New York, Christie's, 7 June 2013, lot 374 (as part of a trumeau mirror);

Thereafter acquired by the present collector.

E. Waterhouse, The Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters, 1981, p. 98.