Lord St. Leonards, Boyle Farm, Thames Ditton, Surrey (probably estate sale, Thames Ditton, E. & H. Lumley, 1 Nov.1886, lot 1018, as "Outward Port of Rotterdam, 37 1/2 × 25 1/2"; sold for ￡180 to);(1) [Martin Colnaghi (1821–1908), London].(2) S. E. Kennedy, Esq. (sale, London, Christie’s, 6 July 1917, lot 13, as "from the Collection of Lord St. Leonards," sold for ￡1,400 to); [Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, stock no. 4966, sold July 1919 to]; [F. Muller & Co., Amsterdam]; H. E. Smidt van Gelder, Aerdenhout (near Haarlem), by 1919, sold 1979 through; [G. Cramer, The Hague, to]; Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter, Los Angeles, given 2009 to; LACMA.
Footnotes
(1) This is the only painting by Van Goyen known to have been in St. Leonards’s sale. The reference to Lord St. Leonards comes from the Kennedy sale catalogue. HdG 1908–27, vol. 8 (1927), no. 95, incorrectly identifies the St. Leonards and Kennedy painting as a similar View of Dordrecht by Van Goyen that was later in the collection of Charles Butler. That painting is, however, H.-U. Beck 1972–87, vol. 2 (1973), no. 310 (Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, inv. no. 1933.27).
(2) According to the annotation "M. Col" in the copy of the St. Leonards’s sale catalogue at the Getty Research Institute.
