John Frederick Lewis, R.A.

James Anderson Rose (1819–1890), London;

His sale et al., London, Christie's, 2 March 1861, lot 136, for 126 guineas, to Colnaghi;

Charles Maw (1835–1905), Holmesdale House, Nutfield;

Probably thence by descent to his son, Charles Trentham Maw (1864–1918), Limpsfield;

By whose Executors sold, London, Christie's, 19 January 1920, lot 166, for 94 guineas, to Smith;

With Mathaf Gallery, London;

Whence acquired by the father of the present owner, circa 1990.

The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, exh. cat., London 1858, p. 14, no. 245;

J.M. Lewis, John Frederick Lewis, R.A. 1805–1876, Leigh-on-Sea 1978, p. 53;

N. Tromans (ed.), The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Paintings, exh. cat., New Haven 2008, pp. 17, 172 and 215, reproduced in colour pp. 16 and 192, figs 6 and 168;

J. Parry, Orientalist Lives: Western Artists in the Middle East 1830–1920, Cairo and New York 2018, p. 197.

London, Royal Academy, The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1858, no. 245;

New Haven, Yale Center for British Art; London, Tate Britain; Istanbul, Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum; and United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Art Museum, The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, respectively 7 February – 27 April 2008; 4 June – 31 August 2008; 23 September 2008 – 4 January 2009; and February–April 2009.