Thomas Emmerson [d. 1955], London;[1] sold 1830 through (John Smith [1781-1855], London) to George John Vernon, 5th baron Vernon [1803-1866], Sudbury Hall, Derby; possibly (Vernon sale, Christie & Manson, London, 1831); sold to Norton. Brook Greville; (his sale, Christie & Manson, London, 30 April 1836, no. 73); (William Seguier, London).[1] Mary Louisa Whyte [Mrs. Mark Anthony Whyte, d. 1853], Barrow Hill, Rocester, Staffordshire; by inheritance with the house to her niece, Louisa Jane Finch, probably by 1870; by inheritance with the house to her stepson, Captain Arthur Finch Dawson, by 1879; (Dawson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 14 December 1928, no. 122); (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); on consignment or joint account 1931 with (M. Knoedler & Co., London, New York, and Paris). acquired before 1941 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York;[2] gift 1949 to NGA. [1] See Charles Sebag-Montefiore, with Julia I. Armstrong-Totten, _A Dynasty of Dealers: John Smith and Successors 1801-1824_, The Roxburghe Club, London, 2013: 21. [2] There was no sale of Vernon paintings at Christie's on 26 May 1831 as indicated by Marcel Roethlisberger, _Claude Lorrain: The Paintings_, 2 vols., New Haven, 1961(reprint 1979), 1:536, no. 281 (citing John Smith, _A Catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters..._, 9 vols., London, 1829-1842: 8[1837]:446, no. 424). There was a Vernon sale a year later, on 26 May 1832, but the NGA painting was not in it. This painting is probably the _View in a Bay, a Boat in Front_, sold anonymously in 1831 to Norton, as recorded in George Redford, _Art Sales: A History of Sales of Pictures and Other Works of Art_, 2 vols., London, 1888: 2:275. Roethlisberger also incorrectly gives the day of the 1836 Greville sale as April 23, and spells Greville's first name with a final "e" that does not appear on the auction catalogue's title page. [3] The painting was included in Gallatin's initial offer of his collection to the NGA, which was accepted on an "if and when" basis in 1941; see NGA curatorial files.