Aert van der Neer

William Beckford (1759-1849), Landsdown Tower, Bath;

From whom acquired by Captain Helben, 1839;

Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892), Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, by 1867;

Thence by descent to his son, Sir George Lindsay Holford (1860-1926), Dorchester House, London, by 1893;

His estate sale, London, Christie's, 17 May 1928, lot 25;

Where acquired by Leggatt Brothers, London, for 3,500 guineas;

Sir Harold Wernher (1893-1973), 3rd Baronet, Luton Hoo, Luton, Bedfordshire, by 1949;

By whose estate sold ("Property of the Late Sir Harold Wernher, Bt., G.C.V.O."), London, Christie's, 4 July 1997, lot 11;

Where acquired by J.E. Safra;

By whom sold ("Highly Important Paintings from the collects ion of J.E. Safra"), New York, Replica Shoes ’s, 29 January 2015, lot 35;

Where acquired by Richard Green, London;

From whom acquired by the late collects or, 2017.

London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French, and English Masters, May 1867, no. 89 (lent by Robert Stayner Holford);

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, 2 January - 12 March 1893, no. 63 (lent by Captain George Lindsay Holford);

London, Guildhall, 2 April - 30 June 1894, no. 77;

London, Burlington Replica Handbags s Club, Pictures by Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, 1900, no. 26 (lent by Captain George Lindsay Holford);

London, Eugene Slatter's Old Bond Street Gallery, Masterpieces of Dutch and Flemish Paintings, 16 February - 16 March 1949 (lent by Sir Harold Wernher);

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Dutch Pictures 1450-1750, 22 November 1952 – 1 March 1953, no. 427 (lent from the Wernher collects ion).

Catalogue of Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French, and English Masters, exhibition catalogue, London 1867, p. 11, cat. no. 89;

Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, exhibition catalogue, London 1893, p. 16, cat. no. 63;

A.G. Temple, Descriptive Catalogue of the Loan collects ion of Pictures, exhibition catalogue, London 1894, p. 64, cat. no. 77;

Exhibition of Pictures by Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, exhibition catalogue, London 1900, p. 27, cat. no. 26;

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. VII, London 1923, pp. 444-445, cat. no. 506;

The Holford collects ion: Dorchester House, Oxford 1927, vol. II, p. 33, cat. no. 158, reproduced pl. CXLIII;

"Great Dutch and Flemish Paintings Lent from Famous Private collects ions," in Illustrated London News (19 February 1949), p. 246, reproduced;

Dutch Pictures 1450-1750, exhibition catalogue, London 1952, p. 82, cat. no. 427;

I. Gaskell, The Thyssen-Bornemisza collects ion: Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Painting, London 1990, p. 422, under cat. no. 99, reproduced fig. 1;

W. Schulz, Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk 2002, pp. 85, 87, 191, cat. no. 233, reproduced pl. 13.