 After that it was sold to H. O. Miethke, who quickly sold it to Jacob Herzog of Vienna.Exhibited as "William Villiers, Viscount Grandison", this had a great impact at a Van Dyck Tercentenary Exhibition at Antwerp in 1899, and in 1901 the portrait was bought by William Collins Whitney, who paid $125,000 for it.This was the second-highest price ever attached to a painting at the time, defeated only by Millet's "Angelus".