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Provenance:
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- Possibly William van Huls, London;
- possibly (his estate sale, at his residence by Wilson, London, 6 August 1722 and days following, no. 129, as Ladies in their Bedroom);
- Edwin. Colonel Gregory Holman Bromley Way [1766-1844], Denham Place, Buckinghamshire;
- sold to (John Smith [1781-1855], London);
- sold 26 January 1830 to George John Venables-Vernon, 5th baron Vernon [1803-1866], Sudbury Hall, Derby;
- (his sale, Christie & Manson, London, 15-16 April 1831, 2nd day, no. 50, as The Importunate Intruder);
- purchased by (John Smith [1781-1855], London) for Sir Charles Bagot [1781-1843];
- (his sale, Christie & Manson, London, 18 June 1836, no. 56);
- Albertus Brondgeest [1786-1849], The Hague, buying for Baron Johan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen [1776-1845], The Hague;
- sold 1846 with the Verstolk van Soelen collection through (John Chaplin, London) to a consortium of Samuel Jones Loyd [1796-1883, later 1st baron Overstone], Humphrey Mildmay [1794-1853], and Thomas Baring [1799-1873], London, and Stratton Park, Hampshire;
- by inheritance to Baring's nephew, Thomas George Baring, 1st earl of Northbrook [1826-1904], London and Stratton Park;
- by inheritance to his son, Francis George Baring, 2nd earl of Northbrook [1850-1929], London and Stratton Park;
- sold March 1927 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);
- sold November 1927 to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.;
- deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.
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