Frans Hals and Studio

Admiral Sir Montague Edward Browning (1863–1947), London;

Sir Hugh P. Lane (1875–1915), London;

With Arthur Ruck, London;

With John Levy Galleries, New York;

From whom acquired by Mrs Benjamin F. Jones Jr. (d. 1941), Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania;

Her posthumous sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 4-5 December 1941, lot 29;

With Schneider Gabriel, New York;

Ira S. French, New York;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 24 May 1963, lot 25, to Acquavella;

With Acquavella Galleries, New York;

Mr and Mrs Smith W. Bagley (1935–2010), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, by 1967;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 26 November 1971, lot 80, for 11,000 Guineas, where acquired.

W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals: des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst), Stuttgart 1921, no. 65, reproduced (as Hals, circa 1627–30); 

W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals: des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst), Stuttgart 1923, p. 318, no. 189, reproduced (as Hals, circa 1640; as possibly signed with monogram, right);

W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals Paintings in America, Connecticut 1936, reproduced pl. 35 (as Hals, circa 1630);

C. Grimm, L'opera completa di Frans Hals, Milan 1974, p. 110, no. 219, reproduced (listed under 'Other attributed works');

S. Slive, Studies in the History of European Art, Frans Hals, London 1974, vol. 3, p. 146, no. D.50, reproduced fig. 171 (under 'Doubtful and wrongly attributed paintings');

To be included in Professor Claus Grimm's forthcoming catalogue raisonné, to be published online in collaboration with the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie in the Hague, as no. A3-16, reproduced (as Frans Hals and Assistant).