Sir Anthony van Dyck

Probably Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), London;

Probably sale, London, European Museum, February 1796, no. 10;

Sir Francis Cook (1817-1901), 1st Baronet, Doughty House, London;

Thence by descent to his son, Sir Frederick Lucas Cook (1844-1920), 2nd Baronet, Doughty House, London;

Thence by descent to his son, Sir Herbert Frederick Cook (1868-1939), 3rd Baronet, Doughty House, London;

Sold by the Cook Trustees via Thomas Agnews & Sons, London, March 1940 to D. Katz, Dieren;

Dr. Leonardus Daniël van Hengel (1876-1952), Arnhem;

By whom consigned to D. Katz, Dieren, on 1 October 1940;

Sold to Goudstikker-Miedl, Amsterdam, on 2 October 1940;

Sold to Hermann Göring (1893-1946), Berlin;

R. Dooyes, 's-Graveland;

By whose descendants sold ("The Property of the Late R. Dooyes, Esq., of 'S-Graveland, Holland, Sold By Order of His Heirs"), London, Sotheby's, 9 December 1959, lot 105 (as "A. Van Dyck," Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria);

Where acquired by Dr. Paul Fischer (1911-1976), Lucerne;

Sale, Frankfurt am Main, Friedrich von Artus, 7 December 1960 (according to a mount at the RKD, The Hague);

Private collection, Düsseldorf, by 1984;

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Van Ham, 15 May 2023, lot 42 (as Circle of Van Dyck);

Where acquired by the present owner.

Probably London, European Museum, February 1796, no. 10.

Probably The Plan and New Descriptive Catalogue of the European Museum, King Street, St. James's Square: Instituted for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, and the Encouragement of British Artists, exhibition catalogue, London 1796, no. 10 (as "Portrait of Mrs. Killigrew, Vandyke. This valuable picture belonged to Gainsborough, and was highly esteemed by that celebrated artist");

Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, London 1907, p. 20, cat. no. 48 (hanging in the Long Gallery);

J.O. Kronig, A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House Richmond & Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook Bt., H. Cook (ed.), vol. II, London 1914, p. 32, cat. no. 251, reproduced (hanging in the Long Gallery, as "an atelier picture," Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria);

Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook, Bart., London 1932, p. 35, cat. no. 251 (hanging in the Long Gallery);

S.J. Barnes, N. de Poorter, O. Millar, and H. Vey, Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London 2004, pp. 541-542, under cat. no. IV.145 (as a copy of the painting at Weston Park).