Provenance
Catherine, Countess of Dunmore, Dunmore Park, Stirling, by 1856
Her son, Charles Adolphus, 7th Earl of Dunmore; Christie's, 13 May 1870, lot 47, as Salvator Rosa (250gns. to Brooks)
Mr. Brooks, The St. James's Gallery, 17 Regent Street, London; Christie's, 1 May 1871 (=2nd day), lot 175, as Salvator Rosa (190gns. to the Earl of Dunmore)
Charles Adolphus, 7th Earl of Dunmore; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 June 1884
The Rev. Francis Palmer (1828-1904), Brighton; sale, Robinson and Fisher (on the premises), 5 and 7 May 1903
Frederick George, 1st Baron Banbury of Southam
His son, Charles William, 2nd Baron Banbury of Southam
with Leger Galleries, London (advertised in the Burlington Magazine, CXII, no.813, Dec.1970, pl.XXIII), as Salvator Rosa
Literature
G. F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, 1857, p.457 'Salvator Rosa - A large landscape, with Hagar and Ishmael. One of his grand compositions, broad, spirited, and solid in execution'