George Dunlop Leslie

William Fenton of Dutton Manor, Ribchester

Sale: Christie’s, London, 5 May 1879, lot 115 (1,180 gns to Agnews)

Thomas Henry Ismay of Dawpool, Wirral

Possibly, Cooling Galleries, London

Mrs Fenning, by whom sold Christie’s, London, 10 July 1970, lot 170

Richard Green, London

Norman Blake, Esq., by 1977

Coughton Galleries, Ltd., where purchased by a private collector, by whom sold

Sotheby’s, London, 6 November 1996, lot 323

Richard Green, London

Sale: Christie’s, London, 27 November 2002, lot 13

Private collection

London, Royal Academy, 1874, no. 129

Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1878

Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, no. 290

London, Guildhall Art Gallery, 1900, no. 109

London, Royal Academy, ‘This Brilliant Year’: Queen Victoria’s Jubilee 1887,

1977, no. 148

Athenaeum, 2 May 1874, p. 163

Times, 2 May 1874, p. 163

Saturday Review, 16 May 1874, p. 622

Art Journal, June 1874, p. 163

Spectator, June 1874, p. 692

Athenaeum, 11 May 1878, p. 609

Athenaeum, 16 July 1887, p. 92

Athenaeum, 14 April 1900, p. 473

Wilfrid Meynell, The Modern School of Art, vol. 111, n.d., p. 113

Christopher Wood, Dictionary of Victorian Painters, 1971, p. 316, illustrated

Mary Cowling, Victorian Figurative Painting: Domestic Genre and the Victorian

Social Scene, London, 2000, pp. 54-56, illustrated