Attributed to Master John

John Dent, MP (1761–1826), Barton Cottage, Christchurch, Hampshire and Hertford Street, London, by 1810;

His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 28 April 1827, lot 54 (as Sir A. More [Anthonis Mor], Portrait of Queen Mary, the wife of Philip), for £27–16s. to Street;

Anonymous sale, London, Wheatley and Adlard, 1 April 1829, lot 225 (as Lucas de Heere, Queen Mary the First), for £31–10s. to William Nathaniel Tuck;

Anonymous sale, London, Horatio Rodd, [unknown dates] 1831, lot 9 (as Lucas de Heere, Mary I, 'A most curious and rare Portrait, from the Collection of the late Mr. Dent'), for £52–10s.;

Thomas Baylis Esq. (d. 1875), Pryor's Bank, Fulham, circa 1831–41;

His sale, on the premises, Pryor's Bank, Deacon, 3–8 May 1841, lot 598 (as Lucas de Heere, Queen Mary);

Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797–1861), Stowe House, 1841–48;

His sale, on the premises, Stowe House, Christie's, 14 September 1848 (15 August – 7 November 1848), lot 290 (as Holbein, Queen Mary, in a black dress, with richly ornamented sleeves), for £70–7s.–6d. to Edwards;

Lady Sarah Sophia Fane, 5th Countess of Jersey (1785–1867), who married George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey and 8th Viscount Grandison (1773–1859), 38 Berkeley Square, London, and Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, where recorded by Sir George Scharf, 23 May 1861, as 'Princess Mary. Holbein / in Library');

Thence by descent in the family of the Earls of Jersey at Osterley Park, Middlesex, and Radier Manor, Jersey.

G. Scharf, Sketchbook 59, 1860–1861, MS NPG7/3/4/2/70, National Portrait Gallery, London, October 1860 – May 1861, p. 156 (as 'Princess Mary. Holbein / in Library');

R. Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, London 1969, vol. I, pp. 78–79, reproduced vol. II, fig. 148 (as 'destroyed by fire', and identified as Lady Jane Grey);

S.E. James, 'Lady Jane Grey or Queen Kateryn Parr?', in The Burlington Magazine, January 1996, p. 20 n. 1 (as 'destroyed', according to Strong);

E. Metz-Longinette-Gahring, The Case for the Queen; The Identification of the Radier Portrait, privately produced, 2010.