ANDRIES VERMEULEN | Winter landscape with figures skating on a river before a wooden bridge and a windmill

Mrs Carpenter, Lea Castle, Kidderminster;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 4 February 1931, lot 76, for £7 to Erskine;

Sale, London, Robinson & Fisher, 21 March 1935, lot 189 (according to a mount at the Witt Library, London);

In the collection of the present owner for at least two generations.

Another version of this painting, of slightly smaller dimensions (82.8 x 104.7 cm.), and signed and dated A·Vermeulen F. / 1798, was sold in these Rooms, 27 October 2011, lot 28. That painting has in the past been confused with the present work, and has been erroneously listed with the Carpenter provenance.