

Mr. Perry, Christ's Hospital, London;
Thence by descent to Mr. Oliver (according to an inscription on reverse).
The present portrait relates closely to Francois Clouet's, Portrait of Charles IX, dated 1561 in the collection of the Vienna Gemaldegalerie and to a drawing of Charles IX, dated 1566 in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
In a French 18th Century frame.