Messrs. Murrieta (sale, London, Christie’s, 14 May 1892, lot 126, sold to); [P. & D. Colnaghi, London]. R. D. Walker, London (sale, London, Christie’s, 1 July 1907, lot 147, as "Dutch School," sold to); [A. Buttery, London]. Ernest James Wythes (d. 1949),(1) Copped Hall, Essex, by inheritance to his daughter; Barbara Dorothy Wythes (b. 1896, m. 1920 to Francis Guy Robert Elwes), by inheritance to her son; Major Robert Valentine Gervase Elwes (1922–1959), Oxfordshire, by inheritance to his father;(2) Col. Francis Guy Robert Elwes (1895–1966), O.B.E. (estate sale, London, Sotheby’s, 26 Mar. 1969, lot 26, sold to); [David Koetser, Zurich, sold 1971 to]; Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter, Los Angeles, given 2003 to; LACMA.
Footnotes
(1) According to the dealer David Carritt, London (letter to Edward Carter, 14 Feb. 1973), "While still a student Wythes inherited a huge fortune from his father, a railway builder. One of his first acts was to build a vast yacht on which to take his fellow-undergraduates to Italy and other centers of culture. . . . Wythes didn’t exactly collect. He bought all the things that retired gentlemen of his time bought, including a Botticelli and a fake Jan van Eyck, but his best picture was probably the one in your lab [the Van de Cappelle]."
(2) Major Robert V. G. Elwes died without children.
