…; 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