Signed and dated, lower left: William M Egley 1857

the artist, WIlliam Maw Egley (Westbourne-Grove, England)

by 1969, E. & A. Silverman Galleries (New York, New York, USA)

February 12, 1969, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) lot 49

purchased by (J.S. Maas & Co., London, England)

1978, Roy Miles Fine Paintings (London, England)

1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

The Works of British Artists. Exh. cat., British Institution. London, 1857, no 499, p. 20. [sold for £40.] The Victorian Era. Exh. cat., London, 1977. Art and Antiques Weekly, Oct. 22, 1977, (cover ill.). Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 56, no. 5 (1978): pp. 275, 317 (fig. 34). Wood, C. The Pre-Raphaelites. New York, 1981, pp. 65-67 (ill.). Casteras, S.P. "William Maw Egley's The Talking Oak." Bulletin of the DIA 65, no. 4 (1990): pp. 26-39 (fig. 1) (ill.). Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2000, pp. 29-30 (ill.).

William Maw Egley, Talking Oak, 1857, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 78.11.