Provenance

John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–1792), Mount Stuart House, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland; by descent to his great-grandson, John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (1793–1848), Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, by 1835; likely by inheritance to Susan North, 10th Baroness North (1797–1884), Wroxton Abbey, by 1857 [see note 1]; by descent to her son, William Henry John North, 11th Lord North (1836–1932), Wroxton Abbey, by 1895; sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, Important Pictures by Old Masters and of the Early English School, London, July 13, 1895, lot 62; sold to “Wooton,” on behalf of John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute (1847–1900), Mount Stuart House, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland; by descent to John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute (1933–1993), Mount Stuart House, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland; sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, Important Old Master Pictures, London, December 9, 1994, lot 22 (as Jan van Kessel). Dr. Herbert (1910–2011) and Mrs. Monika Schaefer (died 2019), Malaga, Spain, by 1995; on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1995–2019; bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2019

Notes:
[1] Susan North was a half-sister of John Crichton-Stuart’s first wife.