Possibly S.W. (possibly Samuel Wyllys) Pomeroy, Esq., Cincinnati, c. 1849.[1] (Irving Barlow, Boston area),1955/1956; acquired 1955/1956 by (Vose Galleries, Boston);[2] purchased April 1957 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] If a painting titled _Crossing the Ford_, and lent to the Western Art-Union in Cincinnati in 1849, is this painting, it was lent by Pomeroy. [2] Vose Galleries, in a letter of 5 April 1957 to Corcoran director Hermann Warner Williams, Jr. (in NGA curatorial files), writes that the painting "appeared a few months ago in the Boston area, in the hands of an antique dealer." The painting "had graduated through several hands to a small picture dealer before it came to [the attention of Vose Galleries]." Vose Galleries had no success tracing the painting beyond the first dealer, whose name was provided to Emily Shapiro of the Corcoran by Siobhan Wheeler of Vose Galleries in an e-mail of 3 March 2004 (copy in NGA curatorial files).