George Bowles, Wanstead, by 1788, d. 1817; to his sister, Rebecca, wife of Sir John Rushout; Hon. Anne Rushout, 1826; Sir Charles Rushout; and by descent to the Third Baron Rushout, d. 1859; to Sir Charles Cockerell, who became Sir Charles F. Rushout of Sezincote House, Gloucestershire; to his heirs; Sale Phillips and Neale, London, 9-12 December 1879 (as Hector and Paris); sold to Aldis; Mrs. N. D'Arcy; Sale Christie's, London, 8 December 1950, lot 23 (as Achilles in his Tent); Private Collection, England; Sale Christie's, London, Old Master & British Paintings, Evening Sale, 8 July 2014, lot 30; Purchased by NMWA, 2015.

1788	Pictures in the Bowles Collection. Boydell, 1788, (engraved by Georg Siegmund and Johann Gottlieb Facius)
1892	Gerard, Frances A. Angelica Kauffmann: A Biography. London, Ward and Downey, 1892, p. 339, no. 19.
1924	Manners, Victoria; Williamson, G. C. Angelica Kauffmann, R.A., Her Life and Her Works. New York, Brentano's [1924], p. 232.
1992	Roworth, Wendy Wassyng. "The art of paintings". Angelica Kauffman: A Continental Artist in Georgian England. Roworth, Wendy Wassyng, ed. London, Reaktion Books, 1992, pp. 60-61, 209, fig. 41 (mistakenly as the painting exhibited at the Royal Academy).
1998	Angelika Kauffmann (exh. cat.). Baumgärtel, Bettina et al., eds. Sammlung Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf; Haus der Kunst, München; Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur. Ostfildern-Ruit, Hatje, 1998, pp. 172, 174 (under no. 59), 380 (under no. 224).