Probably Andrew Fountaine IV (1808–73), Narford Hall, Norfolk, and thence by descent.
His Estate sale, London, Christie’s, 7 July 1894, lot 44 (as 'F. Guardi'), for £136-10s., to Agnew's.
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by whom sold, by late 1894.
Sir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Bt., M.P. (1838–96);
His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 13 June 1896, lot 74 (as 'F. Guardi'), for £210, to Wallis.
Private collection, California, until 2015.

London, The New Gallery, Exhibition of Venetian Art, 31 December 1894 – 6 April 1895, no. 199 (lent by Sir Julian Goldsmid, Bt., M.P.; as Francesco Guardi).
New York, Blakeslee Galleries, Exhibition of Early English, Dutch and Flemish Paintings, 1898, no. 21 (as F. Guardi).

'Sales', in The Athenaeum, no. 3481, 14 July 1894, p. 73.
W. Farrer, 'A record bid', in The Artist and Journal of Home Culture, vol. XV, no. 176, August 1894, p. 312.
A. Trumble, 'Notes and novelties', in The Collector, vol. V, October 1894, p. 254.
'Venetian Art at The New Gallery', in The Speaker, vol. X, 5 January 1895, p. 17.
'Concours et Expositions', in La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité. Supplement à la Gazette des Beuax-Arts, 1895, p. 2.
'The Goldsmid pictures', in The Times, 15 June 1896, p. 15.
'Sales', in The Athenaeum, no. 3582, 20 June 1896, p. 15.
The sale prices of 1896. An annual report of sales by auction of objects of artistic and antiquarian interest, vol. I, London 1897, p. 280, cat. no. 3742.
W. Roberts, 'The Goldsmid sale', in Memorials of Christie's. A record of art sales from 1766 to 1896, vol. II, London 1897, p. 292.
H. Mireur, 'Francesco Guardi', in Dictionnaire des ventes d'art faites en France et à l'Etranger pendant les XVIIIe & XIXe Siècles, vol. III, Paris 1912, p. 403.
A. Graves, 'Francesco Guardi', in Art sales from early in the eighteenth century to early in the twentieth century, London 1918, p. 382.

On the reverse is a red wax Austrian customs seal (with the coat-of-arms of the Austrian Empire and the words: ...LOS STEMPL K.K.H.ZOLL LEGS...)