Jacopo Negretti, called Palma il Vecchio

Captain Edward Glyn de Styrap Jukes-Hughes (1883–1966), Stourbridge House, Dorset;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 3 November 1965, lot 87 (as 'Palma, Half length figures of a man in green coat and white shirt and two women'), for £400, to 'Ramsay';

With Robert Simon Fine Art, New York, by 2014;

Where acquired by the present owner, in 2016.

A. Rossi, Sguardi dalla seconda fila. Composizione e narrazione iconica nella pittura veneta del Cinquecento, Milan 2015, pp. 28–31, reproduced fig. 7;

P. Humfrey, 'A New Half-length by Palma Vecchio: Two Women and a Shepherd', in Artibus et Historiae, vol. 37, no. 74, 2016, pp. 74–77, reproduced in colour fig. 1;

I. Artemieva, 'Vows of Love and Fidelity: Portraits of Loving Couples in Early-Sixteenth-Century Venetian Painting', in Titian's Vision of Women: Beauty – Love – Poetry, S. Ferino Pagden et al. (eds), exh. cat., Milan 2021, p. 212, reproduced in colour fig. 84.