…; collection William Theobald (1795-1850);{Information kindly provided by Caroline Carr-Whitworth, Curator Art, English Heritage, 2009, who also provided information about the picture’s history at Brodsworth. The house is now owned by English Heritage.} his daughter, Georgiana Theobald, and her husband Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson (?-1885), in the library at Brodsworth Hall, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, as anonymous (‘Figure of a man smoking and two other figures on panel’), 1885;{_An Inventory of the Household Effects … Late the Property of C.S.A. Thelluson Esq., Valued for Probate 1885 Dowsett and Woods_, at Brodsworth; information kindly provided by Richard Green (York).} by descent to his great nephew Charles Grant-Dalton (1884-1952), 1931 (but not included in the inventory made in that year);{_A. Thelluson decd. Inventory etc._, 1931, at Brodsworth. A note on the cover of the inventory states ‘Everything except pictures’, though six pictures were listed as in the library. Omitted were the Rijksmuseum picture and an equestrian portrait, which is still at Brodsworth; information kindly provided by Richard Green. It is likely the work was sold by Charles Grant-Dalton (1884-1952); no record of the transaction has been found.}…; from the dealer Arthur Tooth to P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1936;{Colnaghi records 1894-1939, picture stock books, on loan to Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire.} from whom, £ 750, to Isaäc de Bruijn (1872-1953) and his wife Johanna Geertruida de Bruijn-Van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Spiez and Muri, near Bern, 1936; by whom donated to the museum, with a life interest, December 1961; on loan to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1963-98; on loan to the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 2004-11
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