Purchased by 1857 from the artist by William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888], Washington;[1] gift 1869 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] The artist lent the painting to an 1853 exhibition at the Massachusetts Academy of Fine Arts. He kept a list of sales in his Account Book, 1843-68, but there is no record of a sale to Corcoran (Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, microfilmed in the Jasper Francis Cropsey Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: reel 336, no frame number), in whose 1857 collection catalogue the painting is listed as _Washington's Headquarters on the Hudson River_.