Worth took the painting from a London gallery in 1876 and kept it for 25 years.
In 1969 a London gallery sold some of these paintings.
London galleries are generally playing it safe this Olympic year.
The actor sold the painting, a gift from the director, to a London gallery in 1979.
In June a 17th-century writing box brought $87,120 at its London galleries.
He owns a London gallery, which opened in 1960.
During the 1790s the London gallery that showed the original paintings emerged as the project's most popular element.
In 1962 the work, done in china ink on paper, was offered to a London gallery.
Berger began his career as a painter and exhibited work at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s.
He and Willie had been a double bill in a London gallery a couple of years earlier.