John William Godward, R.B.A.

With Thomas McLean, London, by 1896;

With Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, by 1898;

From whom probably acquired by Zachary Merton (1843-1915);

Thence by inheritance to his step-daughter Elsa Emma Lily Antoinette Sanders-Clark in 1915 and her husband Herbert Sanders Sanders-Clark (d. 1933), 4 Lygon Place, London, SW1;

By whose Executors sold ('The Property of H.S. Sanders-Clark, Esq.'), London, Christie's, 30 July 1936, lot 49, to Sampson;

With The British Galleries, London;

Private collection, Kathmandu;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 20 June 1989, lot 40a;

Private collection;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 December 2006, lot 127;

Where acquired by the present owner.

The Magazine of Art, 1896, p. 358;

H.G. Blackburn, Academy Notes, 1896, p. 18;

O. Jean, 'Some Pictures at the Royal Academy', in Studio, 1896, vol. VII, p. 111;

A.G. Temple, The Art of Painting in the Queen's Reign, London 1897, p. 371;

V.G. Swanson, John William Godward - The Eclipse of Classicism, Woodbridge 1997, pp. 56 and 193-194, no. 1896. 4, p. 57, reproduced in colour plate 31;

T. Barringer and E. Prettejohn, Frederic Leighton - Antiquity Renaissance Modernity, New Haven 1999, pp. 40 and 41, reproduced plate 23;

V.G. Swanson, J.W. Godward 1861-1922 - The Eclipse of Classicism, Woodbridge 2018, pp. 67-69 and 273, no. 1896. 5, reproduced in colour plate 54.