Samuel John Talbot Hassel [1797-1882], Kingston upon Hull; by gift February 1875 to his son, John Gordon Talbot Hassell [1846-?];[1] by inheritance to his brother, George Clements Hassell [1835-1907]; by inheritance to his son, Reginald Talbot Clements Hassell [1873-1940]; by inheritance to his daughter, Joan Clements Schreiber Miller [née Hassell, 1907-1999]; by gift 1970s to her sister, Evelyn Barbara Eleanor Bethell [née Hassell, 1910-2004]; by inheritance to her children, John Bethell, Sarah Hamp, Frances Hastings, and Victoria Bethell;[2] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 27 September 2006, no. 129); (French and Company, New York); purchased 8 November 2007 by NGA. [1] The painting was sold in 2006 along with a copy of Albert Hastings Markham's _A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia_ (London, 1874), the front endpaper of which is inscribed: "This Book and the Painting, by Ward, of the Northern Whale Fishery given to John Gordon Talbot Hassell, on his return home after an absence of Eleven Years - nine of which in Hong Kong, whence he is again about to proceed, by his Father J.T. Hassell Kingston upon Hull February 1875 the Painting and the Book always to accompany each other into whose possession they may ever come." The book, which also contains a painted and inscribed silhouette of Captain Sir John Ross, is now in the NGA Library. [2] The details of the painting's descent through her family were kindly provided to NGA by Victoria Bethell.