Paul de Vos (Hulst 1591/2-1678 Antwerp)

Henrietta Cavendish Holles (1694-1755), daughter of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle and his wife Lady Margaret Cavendish, and wife of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer (1689-1741), Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, and by descent through her daughter,
Margaret Cavendish Harley (1715-1785), wife of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709-1762), Bulstrode Park, Buckinghamshire, where described by Vertue in 1741, 'at Bulstrode Duke of Portland's in the Hall. Several large pieces of Huntings, Doggs, Staggs etc. finely painted by De Vos etc', and the year before at the end of his tour of October 1740, 'Saturday night came to Bulstrode the seat of his Grace the Duke of Portland - having viewed this house and pictures before now, see the five large hunting pieces, painted by that famous Master De Vos these pictures removed lately from Wimpole - a house of my Lord Oxford's' (Vertue, op. cit., pp. 70 and 140 respectively), and by descent to their son,
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809), at Bulstrode, where recorded in his posthumous inventory, compiled by Thomas Hill, 1809, as one of nos. 1 to 7: '7 Hunting Subjects. Snyders and Simon de Vos', and by descent to his son,
William Henry, 4th Duke of Portland (1768-1854), by whom moved with other pictures from Bulstrode to Burlington House, London, in 1810 (List of Pictures formerly at Bulstrode, no. 1: as one of '6 Capital hunting Pieces by Snyders'), and subsequently to Welbeck Abbey, Norfolk (Catalogue of circa 1812, no. 8, as 'Snyders'; Catalogue of 1861, no. 467, as 'Snyders'), and by descent at Welbeck, where recorded in 'A Smaller Room' by Dr. Waagen (1857) and on the east wall of the Underground Gallery by Charles Fairfax Murray (1894), until
The Lady Anne Bentinck; Christie's, London, 11 December 1981, lot 66, as 'Paul de Vos'.