Eglon Hendrik van der Neer

Peter Burrell, 1st Lord Gwydyr (1754–1820), Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, by 1812;

His posthumous sale, London, Christie’s, 8–9 May 1829, lot 63 (as E. Ochterveldt), for 66 guineas, to Woodin;

With Joseph Woodin, London;

Charles A. Bredel (1792–1851), London, by 1831;

Thence by inheritance to his daughters, including Harriet Bredel (d. 1874);

By whom posthumously sold (‘By order of the Executor of Miss Bredel’), London, Christie's, 1 May 1875, lot 129, for 500 guineas, to Davis;

George Field (1798–1875), London;

Thence by inheritance to Barclay Field (1835–1892), London;

His posthumous sale (‘Sold by order of the Executors’), London, Christie's, 10 June 1893, lot 27, for 250 guineas;

Deprez collection;

With Boussod, Valadon & Co., New York;

Their sale, New York, American Art Association, 26–28 February 1902, lot 199;

Where acquired by Nicholas M. Matthews, Baltimore;

His sale, New York, American Art Association, 17–18 February 1914, lot 90, to Knoedler;

With Knoedler, New York;

From whom acquired by Udo M. Fleischmann, New York, 1918;

With Knoedler, New York, 1954;

Charles R. Henschel (1885–1956), director at Knoedler, New York;

Thence by inheritance to his widow, Mrs Ruth Kerr Henschel (d. 1974);

By whose Estate sold, New York, Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, 22–23 January 1976, lot 22, for $35,000;

With Richard Green, London, 1976–78 (when advertised in Apollo, vol. 121, June 1976, p. 7);

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 14 March 1978, lot 101, where presumably acquired by the father of the present owner.

An Inventory of the Household Furniture at Grimsthorpe Castle in the County of Lincoln, the Property of the Right Honorable [sic] Lord Gwydir: corrected to 1st January 1812, BR 305 (transcribed in 1940, NG72/62), f. 79, as in The Book Room, no. 10: ‘Lady at the Toilet – Schalcken’;

J. Smith, A catalogue raisonné..., vol. IV, London 1833, p. 175, no. 20;

G.F. Waagen, Treasures of art in Great Britain, London 1854, vol. II, p. 292;

C. Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: école hollandaise, Paris 1861, vol. II, pp. 2 and 8;

W. Roberts, Memorials of Christie's. A record of art sales from 1766 to 1896, London 1897, vol. I, p. 238, and vol. II, pp. 214–15;

H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d'art faites en France et à l'étranger pendant les XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, vol. 5, Paris 1911, p. 385 (where listed twice: 1875 and 1893);

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné..., vol. V, London 1913, p. 488, no. 47;

A. Graves, A century of loan exhibitions: 1813–1912, vol. 4, London 1914, p. 1479 (where listed twice: 1831 and 1847);

A. Graves, Art sales from early in the eighteenth century to early in the twentieth century, vol. 3, London 1921, p. 270 (where listed twice: 1875 and 1893);

S.J. Gudlaugsson, Gerard Ter Borch, The Hague 1959–60, vol. II, p. 161, under no. 147, reproduced pl. 16, fig. 3;

O. Naumann, Frans van Mieris the Elder (1625–1681), Doornspijk 1981, vol. I, pp. 66-67, reproduced fig. 83;

P.C. Sutton (ed.), Masters of seventeenth century Dutch Genre Painting, exh. cat., Philadelphia 1984, pp. LVIII and LXVI, note 127, reproduced p. LVIII, fig. 110;

W.A. Liedtke (ed.), Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections, exh. cat., New York 1985, p. 272, under no. 174;

E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, vol. X, Paris 1999, p. 136;

W.A. Liedtke, Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven and London 2007, vol. I, pp. 513–14 and 516 n. 6, under no. 132, reproduced p. 514, fig. 119;

E. Schavemaker, Eglon Hendrik van der Neer, Doornspijk 2010, p. 462, no. 28, reproduced in colour plate X.