Provenance

Erasmus Earle (1590-1667) of Salle and Heydon Hall, who married the sitter, his cousin Frances Fountaine (1592-1675);

Their eldest son, John, c.1624-1697, portrayed on the right of the picture;

Augustine Earle of Heydon Hall;

Erasmus Earle (d.1768) who d.s.p. leaving his estates to his sister Mary, eldest daughter of Augustine Earle of Heydon Hall and her husband William Wiggett (marriage at Guestwick 1756; died 1798) who took the surname of Bulwer by Act of Parliament in the year of his marriage, as grandson and heir of William Bulwer of Woodalling, Norfolk;

Brigadier-General William Earle Bulwer, their son, 1757-1807;

William Earle Lytton Bulwer of Heydon Hall, 2nd son of the above (1799-1874);

William Earle Gascoigne Lytton-Bulwer of Heydon Hall (1829-1910), his son;

Thence by descent until sold at the contents sale of 20th July 1949; 

Banningham Hall Collection, Norfolk, until acquired by us