Baron Henri de Rothschild. John, 1st Baron Astor of Hever [1866-1971], Hever Castle, Kent, by 1951;[1] by descent, through his wife, Lady Violet Nairne [d. 1965], to George, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne [b. 1912];[2] sold 1979 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); purchased February 1980 by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1982 to NGA. [1] Possibly inherited from his grandmother, Charlotte [1824-1899], who owned a number of Boningtons, according to letter from the Rothschild Archive dated 30 July 1998 in NGA curatorial files. The painting is listed in _The First Hundred Years of the Royal Academy 1769-1868_, Royal Academy, (London, 1951-1952), 94, no. 208, as "Lent by Colonel the Hon. J.J. Astor". [2] Son of the Lady Violet, Baroness Astor of Hever, by her first marriage to Lord Charles George Francis Mercer Nairne (killed in World War I), according to Townsend, Peter, ed., _Burke's Peerage and Baronetage_, 104th ed. (London, 1967), 122, 1446.