Purchased from the artist, on the advice of Sir Charles Eastlake, for the NGV, 1864.
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1864, no. 99; Opening of the New Picture Gallery, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, December 1864; Fine Arts Gallery (Compartment 10), Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1866, no. 309; First Loan Exhibition of Works of Art, NGV, Melbourne, 1869, no. 508; Art Exhibition, Mechanic’s Institute, Geelong, November 1892, no. 87; The Sea and Shore, National Gallery of Victoria travelling exhibition, 1965, no. 21.