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Major Molyneux Williams, Penbedw Hall, Denbighshire
William Robert Maurice Wynne Esq, (1840-1909) of Peniarth, Merioneth, by 20th March 1885 (label on reverse)
Colonel John Williams-Wynne, DSO, of Peniarth, Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales and thence by descent through the family

The present painting is one of many versions of a subject that clearly enjoyed considerable popularity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It has been suggested that they may reflect a lost original by Jan van Eyck which was seen by Marcantonio Camillo and Niccolo Lampognano in Milan in circa 1520. These were in turn influenced by Quinten Metsys's celebrated double-portrait of A Moneychanger and his wife of 1514, now in the Louvre. The most probable source of the original design, however, is now thought to be the celebrated Tax Gatherers by Marinus van Reymerswaele (circa 1490-circa 1567), now in the National Gallery, London. Although little is known about Reymerswaele's life and he is not recorded as a master there, his known work corresponds closely to Antwerp painting of the early 16th century and especially to Metsys. As Silver argues in his 1984 article, it is quite possible that Reymerswaele's original and its derivations may reflect a lost prototype by Metsys, in whose name so many other examples have long been exhibited (see: L. Silver, The Paintings of Quinten Massys, Oxford 1984, p. 211).

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