Provenienz:

• The sitter, Thomas Pope, 3rd Earl of Downe (1598-1668), by descent to
• Thomas Pope, 4th Earl of Downe, upon whose death in May 1668 the picture passed by inheritance to
• His sister, Frances Pope, who married Francis North (1637-1685), later 1st Baron Guilford, and settled at Wroxton Abbey, by descent to their son
• Francis North, 2nd Baron Guilford (1673-1729), by descent to his son
• Francis North, 3rd Baron Guilford and 1st Earl of Guilford (1704-1790), by descent to his son,
• Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732-1792), who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, from 1770 to 1782, by descent to his son
• George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford (1757-1802), who died without male issue, by inheritance, at Wroxton, to his second daughter
• Susan North (1797-1884), who married John Doyle, later North, and was created 10th Baroness North in 1841, by descent to their son
• William North, 11th Baron North (1836-1932) (By inheritance at Wroxton Abbey until 1933)
• Sold by order of Lord North's Trustees, Wroxton Abbey sale, on the premises, 24 May 1933, lot 685, ill. (as by Isaac Oliver),
• where purchased by the present owner's family (Private collection, 1933-2017)
• Auktion Bonhams, London, 5. Juli 2017, Old Master Paintings, lot 45