The artist [1783-1853]; (his estate sale, Copenhagen, 1854, no. 21); Count F.R. Scheel, Ryegaard.[1] (sale, Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 6 October 1998, no. 2001); private collection; (Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen); purchased 10 September 2004 by NGA. [1] The buyer has not been firmly identified, but he may be the Danish politician Frederik Christian Rosenkrantz Scheel, 1833-1912, one of at least two family members with the same name.