Thomas Faed

James Horne Esq., by 1852;

Anonymous sale, Edinburgh, Sotheby's, 26 April 2007, lot 3;

Where acquired.

London, Royal Academy, 1851, no. 811

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1852, no. 47

Mary McKerrow, The Faeds, A Biography, 1982, p. 152.

Exhibited in 1851 with Cottage Piety and an illustration to Auld Robin Gray, The First Step was one of the first paintings Faed showed at the Royal Academy in London.