The present picture relates to Mytens standard types of the King after his accession to the throne in 1625. Perhaps the prime version of the present composition, signed and dated 1629, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I, p.126, no. 6.1289, illus. II, p. 248). Another version remains in the Collection of the National Maritime Museum (National Maritime Museum Cat, op.cit., no. BHC2606(d)). Perhaps the earliest version of this type, dated 1628, is in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle (O. Millar, Tudor and Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the Royal Collection, London, 1963, no. 118). William Lenthall (d.1662), who owned the picture, was the Speaker of the House of Commons in the Long Parliament when Charles I attempted to arrest five of its members. He was also a prominent figure in both the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and was later instrumental in the Restoration. He possessed a notable collection of pictures at his house, Burford Priory, which he had acquired from Lord Falkland in 1634.