Abraham Storck

Miss N. Oswald Smith, London, by 1929;

Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875–1968), London and Dublin;

By whose Executors sold, London, Sotheby’s, 26 March 1969, lot 130, for £7,800;

Where acquired by Frost & Reed, London;

With Richard Green, London, by April 1971;

Mr and Mrs Douglass C. Fonda, Jr, Nantucket;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 12 December 1979, lot 62, for £19,800, to R. Cook;

From whom acquired.

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, An exhibition of marine art, 1929, no. 16 (as ascribed to Abraham Storck);

Washington, National Gallery of Art; Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art; and Paris, Grand Palais, L’Amérique vue par l’Europe, 7 December 1975 – 15 February 1976, 6 May – 8 August 1976 and 17 September 1976 – 3 January 1977, no. 155a.

Catalogue of an exhibition of marine art, exh. cat., London 1929, pp. 34–35, no. 16 (as ascribed to Abraham Storck);

Advertisement in The Connoisseur, vol. 176, no. 710, April 1971, p. 15, reproduced in colour;

H. Honour, L’Amérique vue par l’Europe, exh. cat., Paris 1976, p. 153, no. 155a, reproduced;

C. Gully, ‘Abraham Storck of Amsterdam’, in The Antique Collector, May 1988, p. 84, reproduced p. 85, fig. 8.