Provenance: Arthur Dean of Birmingham, England by 1881.
Source of acquisition
Folger file card lists the source as simply "From Mrs. Folger's house."
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 177 Piper, David. Notes of Shakespeare Portraits at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, made November 1962 [typescript], no. 4