Probably Lord Methuen, Corsham Court, Wiltshire
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Frederik Muller & Cie, "Rudolf Peltzer and Other Provenances," 26-27 May 1914, lot 343 (as by Rubens, "Portrait of a Young Man")
The Hon. Claude A.C. Ponsonby (1859-1935), England
His sale ("by the order of Messrs. Elkins & Henriques, Attorneys, London"), New York, American Art Galleries, 16-17 April 1917, lot 155 (as by Rubens, "Portrait of a Gentleman")
Where purchased by Bourgeois Galleries, New York, for $2,000
With F. Kleinberger, New York
His sale, New York, American Art Association/Anderson Galleries, Inc., 18 November 1932, lot 52 (as by Rubens, "Portrait of Breughel the Younger," sold with a MS authentication by Dr. Hofstede de Groot, dated The Hague, July, 1922)
Where acquired by J. W. Bentley for $3,600
With A. Seligmann, Rey & Co., From whom purchased by William Randolph Hearst, New York and Chicago, 1933
By whom sold, Parish-Watson & Co., New York, 1939
From whom purchased by the Grandfather of the present owner, 16 January 1939
Thence by descent to the present owner's aunt and purchased by him from her estate.