Provenance
(Possibly) John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792).
John Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, by 1835.
His wife's half-sister, Susan, 10th Baroness North, by 1857.
Her son, William, 11th Baron North, 16 Arlington Street, London, and Wroxton Abbey; Christie's, 13 July 1895, lot 62, illustrated, as Hobbema; sold for 1,450gns. to Wooton on behalf of John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, and by descent.
Literature
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., VI, London, 1835, p. 151, no. 104, as Hobbema
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., IV, London, 1912, p. 444, no. 288, as Hobbema
C. Hofstede de Groot, Meindert Hobbema, in U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, XVII, Leipzig, 1924, p. 161, as Hobbema
G. Broulhiet, Meindert Hobbema, Paris, 1938, p. 398, no. 164, illustrated p. 184, as Hobbema
W. Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1966, p. 205, note 63, as Hobbema
M. Russell, A winter landscape after Jan van de Cappelle, The Burlington Magazine, CXXX, no. 1025, Aug. 1988, pp. 606-7, fig. 33
S. Slive, The Manor Kostverloren: Vicissitudes of a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Motif, in The Age of Rembrandt - Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting, ed. R.E. Fleischer and S. Scott Munshower, Papers in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University, 3, 1988, p. 149, note 61
I. Gaskell, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection - Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Painting, London, 1989, p. 420, illustrated under no. 98
A.I. Davies, Jan van Kessel, Doornspijk, 1992, pp. 78-9 and 193, no. 116, pl. 116
Exhibited
London, British Institution, June 1857, no. 119, as Hobbema
Washington, National Gallery of Art, The Treasure Houses of Britain, 3 Nov. 1985-16 March 1986, p. 374, no. 307, illustrated in colour, as Hobbema