Possibly B. F. Gardner, Baltimore, by 1862.[1] Private collection, Switzerland, until 1980;[2] (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 25 April 1980, no. 17); (Alexander Gallery, New York); sold 1980 to Richard Manoogian, Grosse Pointe, Michigan; gift (partial and promised) 1991 to NGA; gift completed 2001. [1] Gardner's possible ownership is discussed by Franklin Kelly in the systematic catalogue entry on the painting (Kelly, Franklin, et al., _American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I_, Washington, D.C., 1996: 144-148). [2] According to Holly Goetz of Sotheby's, New York (memorandum of phone conversation, 24 June 1993, in NGA curatorial files), this individual is deceased and those administering the estate refuse to divulge any information whatsoever about how and when the painting was acquired.