E.W. Brayley and J. Britton, The Beauties of England and Wales…, London, 1805, VI, p. 106, as ‘Rembrandt’.
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London, 1836, VII, pp. 20-21, no. 54, as ‘Rembrandt van Rhyn’.
Stowe: A description of the house and gardens of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, London, 1838, p. 63, no. 256, as ‘Rembrandt’.
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, II, p. 308, as 'Rembrandt’ ‘The Angel of the Lord announcing the birth of Samson to his parents’.
C. Vosmaer, Rembrandt. Sa vie et ses oeuvres, The Hague, 1877, p. 514, as ‘Rembrandt’.
M. Foster Sweetser, Rembrandt, Boston, 1878, pp. 61 and 153.
J.W. Mollett, Rembrandt, London, 1879, p. 89, as ‘Rembrandt’.
W. Bode, The Complete Work of Rembrandt, Paris, 1897, p. 180, under no. 249, as ‘a later replica’.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1916, VI, p. 61, under no. 70, as ‘a later replica’.
C. White, D. Alexander and E. d’Oench, Rembrandt in Eighteenth Century England, Yale, 1983, p. 111, no. 87. 
C. Brown, J. Kelch, P. van Thiel, Rembrandt- Der Meister und seine Werkstatt- Gemälde, Munich, 1992, pp. 76-77 and 88, no. 60, fig. 89, as 'workshop of Rembrandt'.