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Attributed to John Constable (1776-1837), the artist; … ; acquired by Charles Alfred Cripps, first Baron Parmoor (1852-1941), London, England [1]; … ; purchased at auction by Leslie Walter Lewis (1902-), 11 Bury Street, St. James’s, London, at Christie, Manson & Woods, July 4, 1947 (lot 73, 'Stoke-by-Nayland Church'), in "Portraits; old pictures" [2] [a]; purchased by Robert Zarubul Ramm (1900-1963) at Walter M. Kearns, 32 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, April 2-3, 1948 (lot 430), in "An important auction sale of a very valuable collection of fine oil paintings" [3] [b]; by descent to his wife, Lily Ramm (née Wolfson) (1898-1996), Los Angeles, California; purchased by Paul Mellon, 1979 [c]; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, December 1981 [d].

Notes:
[1] See label on the painting’s reverse, which reads “Stoke by Nayland Church” John Constable R.A. From the Collection Rt. Hon. Lord Parmoor.”
[2] The painting was previously known as "Stoke-by-Nayland Church" according to Malcolm Cormack, A Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1985), 64-65, https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:583000
[3] A receipt on Leslie Lewis letterhead for the painting states verbatim that Ramm purchased the work in the 1948 "art auction" at Walter M. Kearnes. Lewis and Kearnes were in business.

Citations:
[a] Christie, Manson & Woods. July 4, 1947. Portraits the Property of Lady Townshend Widow of Sir Charles Townshend; Old Pictures the Property of Major H.B. Turnor…the Property of the Right Hon. Lord Parmoor. https://worldcat.org/en/title/171346987
[b] Walter M. Kearnes. April 2-3, 1948. Catalogue of an important auction sale of a very valuable collection of fine oil paintings. https://worldcat.org/en/title/890670583
[c] Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, p. 64-65
[d] Ibid