Although The Wrestlers was probably exhibited as part of a major retrospective of Etty's work in 1849, it then went into a private collection and was not publicly exhibited again for almost a century.
尽管《摔跤手》可能作为埃蒂1849年的重要作品陈列，但后来这个作品流入了私人收藏，之后几乎一个世纪以来都没有公开展出。