The artist's collection;
Edith Holman Hunt; by descent:
Hillary Holman Hunt by 1949;
Diana Holman Hunt, by bequest;
Christie's, 22 June 1962;
Agnews on commission for:
Evelyn Waugh; sold Sotheby's Belgravia first Picture Sale 17th October 1971, lot 57
Stone Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

Diana Holman Hunt, My Grandfather, his Wives and Love, Hamish Hamilton, London, page 23: 'I owned an oil portrait of him (George Waugh) by my grandfather in a handsome tortoiseshell and ebony frame which I promised to sell to Evelyn.'
Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt, A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I, number 120, illustrated page 231, Yale University Press New Haven and London, 2006