Provenance: Bought by Eustace Conway from the artist in April 1907.
Source of acquisition
Bought by Folger from Conway, October 1923, $400.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 174 Piper, David. Notes of Shakespeare Portraits at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, made November 1962 [typescript], no. 18