Abel Grimmer

Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish (1754-1834), 1st Earl of Burlington;

Thence by descent to his son, Charles Compton Cavendish (1793-1863), 1st Baron Chesham;

Thence by descent to his great-grandson John Compton Cavendish (1894-1952), 4th Baron Chesham, Blackwell Hall, Chesham, Buckinghamshire;

By whom sold ("The Property of the Rt. Hon. the Lord Chesham, Blackwell Hall, Chesham"), London, Sotheby's, 18 December 1946, lot 148;

Where acquired by William Hallsborough Gallery, London;

With H. Terry-Engell Gallery, London, by 1972;

With Galerie J. Kraus, Paris, by 1977;

With Robert H. Smith, Washington;

From whom acquired by an anonymous owner, circa 1981;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1990, lot 28;

Where acquired by the late collector.

London, British Institution, June 1857, no. 106 (lent by the Hon. C. C. Cavendish).

Probably J.T. James, The Flemish, Dutch, and German Schools of Painting, London 1822, p. 12;

Catalogue of Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters..., exhibition catalogue, London 1857, p. 12, cat. no. 106;

A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912, vol. I, London 1913, p. 451;

F.C. Legrand, "Abel Grimmer, peintre d'architectures," in Revue Belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art 26 (1957), p. 165;

H. Gerson and E.H. ter Kuile, Art and Architecture in Belgium, 1600 to 1800, Baltimore 1960, pp. 67, 69;

G.T. Faggin, La pittura ad Anversa nel Cinquecento, Florence 1968, pp. 93-94 note 24;

J.A. Welu, The Collector's Cabinet, Flemish Paintings from New England Private Collections, exhibition catalogue, Worcester 1983, pp. 64, 66-67, reproduced fig. 16b;

R. Bertier de Sauvigny, Jacob et Abel Grimmer, Catalogue Raisonné, Brussels 1991, p. 200-201, cat. no. IX, reproduced fig. 91;

H. Borggrefe, T. Fusenig, and B. Uppenkamp, Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp 2002, pp. 168, 171, reproduced fig. 19;

B.G. Maillet, Intérieurs d'Églises 1580-1720: Peinture Architecturale dans les Écoles du Nord, Wijnegem 2012, p. 248, cat. no. M-0425, reproduced.