Provenance
Acquired by the 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), of Hinchingbrooke, Huntingdon, where recorded in 1751 and 1761, seen by Horace Walpole in 1763;
recorded in the library, Hinchingbrooke, 1808 (‘half length[s] of Prince Rupert when a youth’), in the Yellow Drawing Room, 1876 and 1910
sale, Victor (Alexander) Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke (1906-95), the eldest son of the Earl of Sandwich, London (Sotheby’s), 4 December 1957, nr. 172, as Van Dyck, £ 150, to the dealer Duits, for the museum