Painted for the sitter, William Davenport, Davenport House, Worfield, Shropshire; by descent to Mrs. Cuthbert Leicester-Warren, daughter of Edmund Henry Davenport, 1890. A.J. Finberg.[1] (M. Knoedler & Co., New York). (John Levy Galleries, New York). Benjamin Franklin Jones, Jr. [1868-1928], Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania, by 1925; by inheritance to his wife;[2] (sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 4-5 December 1941, 2nd day, no. 23); William Robertson Coe [1869-1955], Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York; Coe Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA. [1] According to M. Knoedler & Co. records, entered in The Provenance Index, J. Paul Getty Trust, Santa Monica; presumably Alexander Joseph Finberg [1866-1936], the writer on Turner. [2] It was lent to the exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1925 by Mrs. Jones.