Provenance

Commissioned by the Princess of Orange, Amalia van Solms, the sitter’s mother-in-law, in 1641, and recorded by the Countess of Roxburghe on 13th August of that year (see note on the provenance below).
(Possibly) The Artist’s deceased Estate, by inheritance to his widow Mary (d. 1644), who remarried Sir Richard Price. After Price died intestate, the pictures in his possession ended up in the hands of the dealer Richard Andrews.
(Possibly) Sir John Wittewronge, recovered from the above in 1650 on behalf of his mother
Lady Anne Middleton, Rothamsted Manor, Hertfordshire.
Sir Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend (1630 – 1687), Raynham Hall, Norfolk; thence by descent in the family to
George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend (1753 – 1811), Raynham Hall, Norfolk; thence by descent to
John Stuart Townshend, 6th Marquess Townshend (1866 – 1921), Raynham Hall, Norfolk.
His Sale; Christie’s, London, 7 March 1904, lot 192
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, acquired from the above sale.
Robert (1850 – 1929) and Evelyn Benson (1856 – 1943), acquired from the above; and by gift to their daughter; thence by inheritance to their son-in-law, Sir Hereward Wake, Bt. (d. 1963), Courteenhall; and by descent to his son.
His Sale; Sotheby’s, London, 5 Dec. 2018, lot 30 (pendant to the preceding lot – Van Dyck’s portrait of her brother Charles II when Prince of Wales, erroneously as with costume ‘probably entrusted to assistants’ prior to its revelatory cleaning).