David Teniers the Younger, after Jacopo Palma, called Palma Vecchio

Probably General John Churchill, 1^st Duke of Marlborough, 1^st Prince of Mindelheim, 1^st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (1650–1722), Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (recorded at Blenheim by 1740; see Literature);

Thence by descent to George Spencer-Churchill, 8^th Duke of Marlborough (1844–1892), Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire;

His sale, London, Christie’s, 26 July 1886, lot 170 (as David Teniers), for £29–8s., to Davis;

Isabella Frances Weston (d. 1922), Holme Grange, Berkshire;

By whose Executors sold, London, Christie’s, 21 October 1949, lot 58 (as attributed to David Teniers), for £68–5s., to Hunter;

HRH Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897–1965), Harewood House, West Yorkshire;

By whose Trustees sold, London, Christie’s, 26 November 1976, lot 2 (as David Teniers), for £13,000;

The British Rail Pension Fund, London;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 5 July 1995, lot 35 (as David Teniers);

With Noortman Master Paintings, Maastricht;

From whom acquired in 2010.

London, Mr Davis’s Galleries, A collection of one hundred and twenty paintings by David Teniers (from Blenheim Palace). The property of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, December 1884, no. 95;

London, Kenwood, Iveagh Bequest, on long-term loan, 1972–76, no. 30;

London, Victoria & Albert Museum, on long-term loan, 1977–89;

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruegel. Une dynastie de peintres, 18 September – 18 November 1980, no. 216h;

Doncaster, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, on long-term loan, 1990–93.

G. Vertue, ‘Vertue’s Note Book B.3. (Add. MS. 23,087)’, 1740, transcribed in The Walpole Society, vol. 26, 1937–38, p. 135, under no. V. 13, B.M. 34 (‘saw all the appartments & pictures—the Duke of Marlbro. … in y^e Closet about 100 small pictures—coppyd by David Teniers for the Duke Leopold—from his excellent pictures in his Collections’);

G. Scharf, Catalogue raisonné or, a list of the pictures in Blenheim Palace: with occasional remarks and illustrative notes, London 1862, vol. I, p. 165, no. 95 (as David Teniers);

C. Davis, A collection of one hundred and twenty paintings by David Teniers (from Blenheim Palace). The property of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, exh. cat., London 1884, p. 30, no. 95 (as David Teniers);

Cabinet Pictures by Teniers, exh. cat., London 1972, n.p., no. 30 (as David Teniers);

Bruegel. Une dynastie de peintres, exh. cat., Brussels 1980, p. 283, no. 216h (as David Teniers).

Engraved

Lucas Vosterman the Younger (1624–c. 1667), for the Theatrum Pictorium, c. 1656, no. 196.