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After Turner's death, the painting was sold at auction by Christie's on 28 April 1888 and was bought in by his executors.  Water Willow was the first Pre-Raphaelite painting acquired by the American collector Samuel Bancroft, who purchased it in 1890.  Bancroft later sent the painting back to England to be repaired by Charles Fairfax Murray. Murray asked and received Bancroft's permission to make a copy that he gave to Jane Morris, because "she was to have had the picture, it being a great favourite of hers." The original was bequeathed to the Delaware Art Museum by Bancroft's descendants in 1935.The painting was exhibited in Manchester in 1882 and again in 1887, London in 1883, and Philadelphia in 1892.
It was also exhibited in Wilmington, Delaware in 1917 and 1934, New Haven, Connecticut in 1976, and Liverpool and Amsterdam in 2003.
Samuel Bancroft Jane Morris New Haven, Connecticut Delaware Art Museum Christie's Charles Fairfax Murray Pre-Raphaelite Wilmington, Delaware