Brought from Italy by Bradshaw Pearson, 1790;
3rd Duke of Bridgewater, d. 1803, London;
by descent to Lord Gower, later 2nd Marquess of Stafford and 1st Duke of Sutherland, d. 1833;
Lord Egerton, later 1st Earl of Ellesmere, London;
5th Earl of Ellesmere and 6th Duke of Sutherland;
the Ellesmere 1939 settlement, sale, Christie’s, London, 2 July 1976 (83).

W. Y. Ottley, 1818, no. 14, as Van Dyck;
Smith 1831, under no. 263;
Waagen 1854, vol. 2, p. 40;
Guiffrey 1882, p. 244, under no. 33;
Cust 1900, p. 238, no. 16;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 69;
Bridgewater House 1926, no. 23;
Glück 1931, p. 235;
London 1968, no. 25;
National Art- Collections Fund. 73rd Annual Report, 1976, p. 33;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 646;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 254, no. III.11 (H. Vey), dimensions recorded as 154.5 x 108.0 cm;
Davies 2021a, ill. p. 58, p. 59, p. 63, n. 52;
Davies 2021e, p. 61.

Antwerp brand mark; See Vey 2004 for detailed discussion