Adam van Breen

This lot has been withdrawn from the sale.

William Danby (1752–1833), Swinton Park, North Yorkshire;

His widow, Anne Holwell (d. 1879), Swinton Park, North Yorkshire;

Thence by inheritance to George Affleck, later Danby (1818–1891), Swinton Park, North Yorkshire;

From whom purchased, together with Swinton Park and its contents, by Samuel Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Baron Masham (1815–1906), in 1884;

Thence by family descent.

J. Fisher, The History and Antiquities of Masham and Mashamshire, London 1865, p. 168 (as Jan Brueghel; hanging in the Drawing Room);

M.C. de Kinkelder, in Saur Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, vol. 14, Munich/Leipzig 1996, p. 65;

E. Buijsen et al., Haagse Schilders in de Gouden Eeuw: het hoogsteder lexicon van alle schilders werkzaam in Den Haag, 1600–1700, Zwolle 1998, p. 104, reproduced fig 1.