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 Collection of J.E. Safra"), New York, Sotheby’s, 29 January 2015, lot 35;

Where acquired by Richard Green, London;

From whom acquired by the late collector, 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 Fine Arts 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 Collection).

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 Collection 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 Collection: Dorchester House, Oxford 1927, vol. II, p. 33, cat. no. 158, reproduced pl. CXLIII;

"Great Dutch and Flemish Paintings Lent from Famous Private Collections," 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 Collection: 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.