Charles I (two CR with crown brands are on the back of the panel);
sold to Wagstaff(e), 15 July 1650;
Sir Peter Lely, d. 1680;
his sale, 18 April 1682 bought by Austen;
1st Earl of Northington, by 1758;
2nd Earl of Northington, d. 1786;
his sale, 1787, bought by Sir Joshua Reynolds with the intention of offering it to the 4th Duke of Rutland, d. 1787 (The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, collected and ed. J. Ingamells and J. Edgcumbe, London, 2000, p. 182);
thereafter by descent until 2001, when acquired by the museum in lieu of death duties after the death of the 10th Duke.

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R. Graham in Du Fresnoy 1695, p. 332;
De Piles 1744, p. 472:
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Smith 1831, no. 457;
Guiffrey 1882, pp. 210-13, no. 449;
London 1900, no. 232;
Cust 1900, p. 286;
Van den Wijnaert 1943, p. 165;
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Miller 1954, pp. 39-42;
Vey 1956, p. 201;
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Larsen 1988, no. 799a;
Washington 1990-1, no. 102;
Sharpe 1992, pp. 220-2;
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London 2009, pp. 156-7, no. 77 (C. Brown);
London 2018, p. 245, no. 81
White 2021, pp. 238-9, fig. 222;
Davies 2021a, p. 59, p. 63, n. 57;
Davies 2021e, p. 64.

TE416′ in white chalk