Saint Francis of Paola calming the Waters in the Straits of Messina

Frank Hall Standish, born Frank Hall, assumed the name of Standish after inheriting Duxbury Hall in Lancashire from his cousin Sir Frank Standish in 1812. He spent most of his short life in Seville and, as a token of his great esteem for the French nation, bequeathed the whole of the collection which he had formed to King Louis-Philippe of France for whatever use he might find fitting. His collection of two hundred and twenty pictures, many of them Spanish, was exhibited in the Louvre as the 'Musée Standish', separate from the 'Galerie Espagnole'. All the paintings were restored to the King's heirs after the 1848 revolution and sold at Christie's, London in 1853. The present painting does not appear in any of the Louis-Philippe sales at Christie's that year, nor does it seem to have been exhibited at the Musée Standish, the Louvre, Paris, from 1841-8 or at the Galerie Espagnole, the Louvre, Paris, from 1838-48.