(Presumably) Henry Bentinck, 2nd Earl and 1st Duke of Portland (1682-1726) or his son, William, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709-1762), Bulstrode Park, Buckinghamshire, where recorded by John Achard, tutor to the latter and his younger brother, Lord George Bentinck, as 'A Piece of Fowls by Ondercooten', and by descent to the 2nd Duke's son, William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809), at Bulstrode, where recorded in his posthumous inventory, compiled by Thomas Hill, 1809, no. 79, and by descent to his son, William Henry, 4th Duke of Portland (1768-1854), by whom moved with other pictures from Bulstrode to Burlington House, London, in 1810 (List of Pictures formerly at Bulstrode, no. 17) and subsequently to Welbeck Abbey, Norfolk (Catalogue of circa 1812, no. 4
Catalogue of 1861, no. 498), and by descent at Welbeck, where recorded in the Swan Drawing Room by Charles Fairfax Murray (1894)