H. Cook, ‘La Collection de Sir Frederick Cook Visconde de Monserrate à Richmond’, in Les Arts [Paris], vol. 4, no. 44, August 1905, p. 26;
W. von Bode, ‘Anton van Dyck als Mitarbeiter des Peter Paul Rubens’, in Rembrandt und seine Zeitgenossen , Leipzig, 1906, p. 266;
Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, London 1907 (& 1914), p. 28, no. 173, as hanging in The Lobby;
E. Schaeffer, Van Dyck: des Meisters Gemälde. Klassiker der Kunst, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1909, p. 157;
J.O. Kronig (H. Cook ed.), A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, & Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Bt., Visconde de Monserrate , vol. II, Dutch and Flemish Schools , London 1914, p. 34, no. 254 (as Jacob Jordaens);
W. Drost, Barockmalerei in den Germanischen Länden, Potsdam 1926, p. 64;
H. Rosenbaum, Der junge Van Dyck (1615-1621) , Ph.D. Diss., Munich 1928, p. 33;
G. Glück, Van Dyck, des Meisters Gemälde. Klassiker der Kunst , no. 13, 2nd revised ed., Stuttgart, New York and London 1931, p. 112;
M.W. Brockwell (ed.), Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House Richmond Surrey in the collection of Sir Herbert Cook, Bart , London 1932, p. 29, no. 254 (173), as on an unprimed canvas, in Room V, The Lobby, at Doughty House (and as Van Dyck);
H. Vlieghe, ‘Het portret van Jan Breughel en zijn gezin door P.P. Rubens’, in Bulletin Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van Belgi ë, 1966, p. 186;
U.R. Köhler-Lutterbeck, P.P. Rubens und das Familienportrait. Kommentare zum Thema der Familie im Werk des Malers , Diss., Kiel 1975, no. 84;
E. Waterhouse, Suffer the Little Children to come unto Me , Ottawa 1978, p. 22, reproduced fig. 12;
E. Larsen, L'opera completa di Van Dyck 1613-1636 , Milan 1980, pp. 89-90,no. 75, reproduced p. 91 (as circa 1616-17);
A. McNairn, The Young Van Dyck , exh. cat., Ottawa 1980, pp. 158-60, no. 73, reproduced p. 256, without suggested dating;
H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard , Part XIX, Portraits, II Antwerp - Identified Sitters , London 1987, p. 62, under no. 79;
E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck , Freren 1988, vol. 2, p. 47, no. 84, reproduced (as circa 1616-17);
C. Brown, E. Haverkamp Begemann and S.S. Dickey, Anthony van Dyck , exh. cat., 1990, p. 144, no. 3, reproduced (as painted circa 1616-17);
D.L. Lurie, Van Dyck and his Age , exh. cat., Tel Aviv 1995, pp. 38-39, no. 7, reproduced (as painted by Van Dyck circa 1616-17, or slightly later);
F. Baudouin in Van Dyck 1599-1641 , C. Brown and H. Vlieghe (eds), exh. cat., Antwerp and London, p. 102, reproduced (as around 1617-18);
N. De Poorter, in S.J. Barnes, N. De Poorter, O. Millar and H. Vey, Van Dyck. A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings , New Haven and London 2004, p. 102, no. I.108, reproduced (as datable to the middle of 1620); also p. 107, under no. I.113;
R.M. Edsel, Rescuing Da Vinci , Dallas 2006, p. 216, reproduced.