Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula

Signature: Signed and dated on one of the steps towards the bottome left: CLAVDIO. I. V.F. ROMAE 1641

Painted for Fausto Poli (1581-1652), when he was Pope Urban VIII's major domo and adminstrator of the Barberini possessions; bequeathed by Polil to Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597-1679), newphew of Urban VIII; inherited by Cardinal Carlo Barberini (1630-1706) and recorded at some date during the years 1692-1704 in the ground-floor apartment of the Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane; recorded in the posthumous inventory of Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1662-1738); bought by William Lock (1732-1810) from the Palazzo Barberini some time in or after 1751 and probably by 1774; sold by Lock to Gerard Levinge van Heythusen in 1781; sold by van Heythusen to the Frnch picture dealer resident in London, Noel Joseph Desenfans (1745-1807), for 2500 guineas; sold by Desenfans to Thomas Moore Slade, picture dealer, for £1200 after July 1786; in the gallery at Slade's home at Rochester before being removed to Slade's house in London; bought from Ward by John Julius Angerstein for £2500 and in his collection by 19 November 1802; purchased with other paintings in the Angerstein collection from his executors in 1824.