By descent in the Edes family to Mrs. Henry N. (Hannah N.) Conklin, Brooklyn, New York, by 1862; Edward Goodwin, Brooklyn, by 1895; George H. Ainslie, a Brooklyn art dealer, by 1905, offered in a letter to the Worcester Art Museum as a painting by Copley; Mr. M. L. Goodwin, by 1917; Frank Bulkeley Smith, Esq., Worcester, by 1917. Purchased from the Frank Bulkeley Smith sale, through Ehrich Galleries, New York, 1920