The artist; sold 1857 to Robert M. Olyphant [1824-1918], New York;[1] (his sale, by Robert Somerville at Chickering Hall, New York, 18-19 December 1877, 1st day, no. 65, as _High Bank, Genessee River_); purchased through (Samuel P. Avery, New York) by Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[2] acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] Titled _View on the Genesee_, the painting is recorded in a "list of all paintings sold with prices and to whom sold" for the year 1857 (John F. Kensett Papers, Kellogg Collection, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Microfilm N68-85, frame 477; copy in NGA curatorial files). [2] According to the Register of Paintings Belonging to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1869-1946, the painting was received from Avery on 26 December 1877 (Series 1, Box: 135, Volume: 1. Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art + Design, Corcoran Gallery of Art registrar's office records, COR0005.1-RG. Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University; digitized online and copy in NGA curatorial files). That he was acting as agent for the Corcoran Gallery at the Olyphant sale is suggested by an annotated copy of the auction catalogue in which the buyer of the painting is listed as the Corcoran. (_Catalogue, Mr. Robert M. Olyphant's collection of paintings by American artists_, New York: Somerville Art Gallery, 1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson.) The Corcoran register lists six paintings from the Olyphant sale received from Avery.