Probably from the collection of Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland (1641-1702);
thence by descent to the 8th Earl Spencer (1924-1992), Althorp;
with Colnaghi, London, 1984;
private collection, Switzerland.

Althorp 1746, nos. 339-42 (“Five of the Apostles by Van Dyck”);
Althorp 1750, (“Five of the Apostles by Van Dyck”, in the Great Parlour);
Dibdin 1822, p. 275;
Althorp 1851, no. 260;
Cust 1900, p. 233, under no. 9;
Bode 1906, p. 257;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 3-right;
Oldenbourg 1914-5, pp. 225, 227, 230-1;
Rosenbaum 1928a, pp. 37-43;
Glück 1931, p. 523, n.43-right;
London 1947, no. 38;
Van Puyvelde 1950a, pp. 121-2;
London 1953-4, no. 217;
Bruges 1956, no. 83;
Vey 1959b, p. 92;
Nottingham 1960, no. 2;
King’s Lynn 1963, no. 2;
Althorp 1976, p. 19, no. 140 (256);
Roland 1983, pp. 24, 29;
Roland 1984, p. 218;
Ottawa 1980a, pp. 38-9;
London 1984, no. 41;
London/New York 1986, no.2;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 152;
Tel Aviv 1995-6, no. 4;
Antwerp/London 1999, no. 3;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 79, no. I.75 (N. De Poorter);
Madrid 2012-13, pp. 44, fig. 13, 45, 57;
New York 2016, pp. 10-11, fig. 12;
Davies 2021a, p. 53, ill. p. 54, p. 62, n. 22;
Davies 2021c, p. 18, ill. p. 22, p. 27, n. 4.

None visible, possibly obscured under the strip of lint

A dendrochronological examination was not permitted by the private owner