Prossibly "an Italian," Antwerp, by 1604.(1) Possibly Seger Tierens,(2) The Hague (estate sale, The Hague, 23 July 1743, lot 114, " Loth met sijn Dogters, leevensgroot, door ditto [Wtenwaal], hoog vyf voet twee duim, breed ses voet seven duim").(3) [Francis Howard (1874-1954), Dorking, Surrey, by 1929(4) (sale, London, Christie's, 25 Nov. 1995, lot 47, sold to)]; [Arcade Gallery, London]. [Orsino Orselli, Florence, sold 1963 to]; Milton (1917-2015) and Cecile (d. 1998) Hebald, Rome and Los Angeles, sold 1981 to;(5) LACMA.
Footnotes
(1) Van Mander 1604, in his biography of Wtewael, pp. 189-90, refers to an Italian who owned a large painting of Lot and His Daughters: "Te Antwerpen is een Italiaan, die een groot stuk, zes voeten hoog en tien lang, van hem bezit, verbeeldende Loth met zijne dochters, waarin de Nakten of Beelden zo groot als 't Leven uitneemend schoon voorkomen, als mede een kunstige Brand, boomstammen enz."
(2) The catalogue notes that Seger Tierens, deceased, was "advocaat voor de respective Hoven van Justitie" (lawyer for the respective courts of justice).
(3) First suggested by Lowenthal 1986, pp. 91, 203.
(4) Francis Howard was a pictures agent working with Duveen Bros. In 1928-29 he corresponded with Duveen about paintings in the collection of Lord Sackville, Knole Park. Lindeman 1929, p. 254, no. XLIII, pl. XXIX, as "Col. Howard, London."
(5) Milton Hebald was an American sculptor who lived and worked in Rome for fifty years. A photograph of the painting was sent by Cecille Hebald to the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, in 1965.
