Thomas de Keyser

Edward Vernon Utterson (1777–1856);

His deceased’s sale, London, Christie’s, 27 February 1857, lot 810, for 10 guineas to Smith, presumably on Beriah Botfield’s behalf;

Beriah Botfield (1807–1863), Norton Hall, Northamptonshire;

By whom bequeathed to the unborn son of John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath;

Thence by descent until sold (‘By Order of the Trustees of the Longleat Chattels Settlement’), London, Christie’s, 14 June 2002, lot 593, for £644,650 to Green;

With Richard Green, London;

From whom acquired by a private collector on 12 December 2007;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 8 July 2015, lot 46, for £360,000;

Where acquired.

London, Royal Academy, Dutch Pictures 1450–1750, Winter Exhibition 1952–53, no. 448.

B. Botfield, Catalogue of Pictures at Norton Hall, London 1863, p. 17 (A Dutch Silversmith from the collection of E.V. Utterson Esq.);

J.G. van Gelder, ‘Dutch Pictures at the Royal Academy’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. XCV, February 1953, p. 34;

J.W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver, The Hague 1958, p. 62, reproduced plate 53 (as depicting Christiaen van Vianen);

H. van Hall, Portreiten van Neederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars, Amsterdam 1963, p. 350, no. 1,2290 (as depicting Christiaen van Vianen);

D. de Wit-Klinkhamer, ‘Een Vermaarde Silveren Beker’, in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 17, 1966, pp. 79–103, reproduced p. 97;

T. Crombie, ‘Beriah Botfield and his Dutch pictures at Longleat’, in Apollo, vol. CV, February 1977, p. 1004, reproduced fig. 4;

J.R. ter Molen, Van Vianen een Utrechtse familie van Zilversmeden met een internationale faam, Leiden University, doc. diss., 1984, vol. I, p. 38 (as depicting Christiaen van Vianen);

A. Jensen Adams, The Paintings of Thomas de Keyser: A study of Portraiture in Seventeenth Century Amsterdam, Harvard PhD thesis, 1985, vol. I, p. 97, vol. III, p. 55, no. 26 (as depicting Simon Andries Valckenaer [1609–1672]);

O. Ydema, Carpets and their dating in Netherlandish Painting 1540–1700, Leiden 1991, p. 163, no. 499; pp. 10 and 163, no. 499, reproduced fig. 4;

A. Jensen Adams, in Shop Talk. Studies in Honor of Seymour Slive, Cambridge 1995, pp. 29–32, reproduced p. 285, fig. 5. Here she also proposes an identification of the other men portrayed.