Borghese collection, Rome by c. 1622 until after 1793; purchased 1800 by Robert Fagan [c. 1761-1816], Rome, who sent it to England; sold to William Buchanan [1777-1846], London;[1] Walsh Porter [d. 1809], London; purchased before Porter's death by George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd marquess of Stafford and 1st duke of Sutherland [1758-1833], Cleveland House, then Stafford House, London;[2] by inheritance to his son, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd duke of Sutherland [1786-1861], Stafford House; by inheritance to his son, George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd duke of Sutherland [1828-1892], Stafford House; by inheritance to his son, Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th duke of Sutherland [1851-1913], StaffordHouse; (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold February 1909 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[3] inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA. [1] William T. Whitley, _Art in England, 1800-1820_, New York and Cambridge, England, 1928: 11-12. [2] The 1809 "Catalogue and Description of the Pictures belonging to the Marquis of Stafford at Cleveland House" (Staffordshire County Record Office, D593/R/7/5) records the acquisition of the painting by Stafford from Porter, who died in May 1809. See: Peter Humfrey, "The Stafford Gallery at Cleveland House and the 2nd Marquess of Stafford as a Collector," _Journal of the History of Collections_ 28, no. 1 (March 2016): 49, 51 fig. 7, 54 n. 40. [3] In a Duveen Brothers ledger recording sales from 1901 to 1910, under Peter A.B. Widener's name for 12 February 1909, is this entry: "1 painting of a man by Moroni 'Titian's Schoolmaster' ex Sutherland Colection" (Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Series I.A. New York House, 1886-1960, reel 4, box 5, New York Sales 1901-1910, page 182, copy in NGA curatorial files).