Sold by the artist to Henry Hare Townshend (died 1827), Busbridge Hall, near Godalming, Surrey, and later Downhills, near Tottenham; sold Christie's, London, June 9, 1827, no. 44, as a pair with The Deserter Pardoned, to Lake for 19 1/2 gns [according to annotated sale catalogue, Christie's, London]. Sold Christie's, London, May 7, 1842, no. 121, to Roe for 18 gns [acc. to annotated sale catalogue, Christie's, London]. Samuel Addington, London, by 1880 [lent by him to London 1880]; sold Christie's, London, May 22, 1886, no. 88, to Arthur Pemberton Heywood-Lonsdale (died 1897) for £320 5s, probably with Colnaghi as agent [according to letter from T. C. Heywood-Lonsdale, March 9, 2004 in curatorial file and annotated sale catalogue, Christie's, London]; by descent to Henry Heywood-Lonsdale (died 1930) Shavington Hall, Market Drayton [letter cited above]; by descent to Lt. Col. Arthur Heywood-Lonsdale (died 1976), Shavington Hall, Market Drayton; sold Christie's, London, October 24, 1958, no. 91, to the Fine Arts Society, London for £240 [according to annotated sale catalogue, Ryerson Library]; sold by the Fine Art Society to John Walter Clarke, Chicago, 1960 [according to letter from Andrew McIntosh Patrick, Director of the Fine Art Society, Jan. 24, 1993 in curatorial file]; given by Mr. and Mrs. Clarke to the Art Institute, 1987.