Liss (of Antwerp); his sale, Christie’s, London, 27 February 1796 (99), as representing ‘Govartius’, bought by Pratbernom;
Bryan; his sale, Peter Coxe, London, 18 May 1798 (51), as representing ‘Govartius’, bought by J. J. Angerstein;
purchased with the Angerstein collection, 1824.

British Institution 1815, no. 9, as a portrait of Govartius by Rubens;
Buchanan 1824, I, p. 286, no. 51;
Smith 1831, no. 251, a ‘A Portrait styled Gevartius…evidently an error’ and probably Van der Geest;
Passavant 1833, p. 18, no. 2, as by Rubens (the head) and Van Dyck (the costume);
Waagen 1854, vol. 1, pp. 351-2, as Van Dyck;
Guiffrey 1882, no. 895;
Cust 1900, pp. 16, 234, no. 24;
Bode 1906, p. 266;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 143;
Glück 1931, p. 125;
‘Verfälschtes van Dyck-Bildnis in der Londener Nationalgalerie’, Die Weltkunst, vol. 20, no. 13, 1950, p. 7;
Baldass 1957, p. 264;
Held 1957, pp. 53, 55;
National Gallery London 1970, pp. 34-7, no. 52;
Held 1982, pp. 35-6, 55, 59;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 45;
Antwerp/London 1999, no. 22;
Barnes et al. 2004, pp. 98-9, no. I.104 (N. De Poorter);
Madrid 2012-3, pp. 18, 34, 129, 320-22, no. 87 (T. Kubissa);
New York 2016, pp. 25, fig. 27, 26;
Davies 2021a, p. 53, p. 62, n. 22;
Davies 2021e, p. 64.

Michiel Vriendt – on the larger panel