Provenance

Presumably bought from the artist by Arthur Champernowne (1768–1819), whose descendant Arthur Melville Champernowne (great-grandson, 1871–1946; see Comment at FT602) sold it for £29 (with FT298, FT313) at Sotheby’s on 20 May 1936, lot 1, to “Stelfox” (a pseudonym?), according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the library of the Courtauld Institute of Art (kindly supplied by Donato Esposito). A further Sotheby’s sale on 9 June 1938 to the Palser Gallery for £26 (a group with FT312, FT313, FT583) is also recorded (but see the provenance for FT312). Prior to 1945 the drawing was acquired by Walter James Redfern Turner of Solihull (1889–1945), whose estate sold it at Sotheby’s on 1/2 June 1948 for £125 to Captain Spink, who sold it to David, Viscount Eccles (1904–1999), who sold it to Colnaghi (30107) in May 1967. On 18 June (Colnaghi records) or 1 July 1968 (Agnew’s records) Colnaghi sold the drawing to Agnew’s (no.8556), who sold it on 24 January 1969 to Mrs Cecil G. Keith. It was sold at Sotheby’s on 13 July 1995, lot 52, for £9,500 to Spink, from whom in 1996 it was acquired for £15,500 by Gerald Bauer, before he sold it at Christie’s on 22 January 2003, lot 6, for £12,000, whereafter it is untraced.