Willem van de Velde the Younger and workshop

John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham (1724–1812), Ashburnham Place, Sussex, by 1760;

Thence by descent;

Until their sale ('Paintings and drawings of the Continental Schools sold by order of the Trustees of the Ashburnham Settled Estates and the Executors of Lady Catherine Ashburnham'), London, Sotheby's, 24 June 1953, lot 86 (as Willem van de Velde the Younger), for £220 to Cevat;

Private collection, Berlin;

Whence acquired by the present owners in 2016.

A catalogue of the pictures of John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, MS, May 1760 (as Willem van de Velde the Younger);

T. Franklands, An inventory of Ashburnham Place, MS, 1793 (as Willem van de Velde the Younger);

J. Smith, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, vol. IX, supplement, London 1842, p. 771, no. 50 (as Willem van de Velde the Younger);

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, London 1923, vol. VII, pp. 46–47, no. 162 (as Willem van de Velde the Younger);

M.S. Robinson, Van de Velde: A catalogue of the paintings of the Elder and the Younger, Greenwich 1990, vol. II, pp. 598–99, no. 583 (1) (as Willem van de Velde the Younger and workshop).