Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Captain Tyler (probably Lieutenant Colonel Charles Henry Tyler, 1788-1872), Linsted Lodge, Kent, by 18 December 1828 (according to the inscription on the reverse);
By descent to Mary Viven Roper-Lumley-Holland (1878-1955), Lynstead Park, Kent;
By whom offered, London, Sotheby's, 6 July 1927, lot 82, where withdrawn;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 20 July 1934, lot 66, to S. Hartveld, Antwerp;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 November 1986, lot 510.

M. Jaffé, 'Some recent acquisitions of seventeenth-century Flemish painting', in Report and studies in the History of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, vol. 3, 1969, p. 32, n. 35;
R.-A. d'Hulst and M. Vandenven, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: The Old Testament, London and New York 1989, pp. 187-88, copies no. 5 and 6, under cat. no. 57.