Provenance
most probably the full-length portrait of Constantijn Huygens with his clerk or page which was in the inventory of possessions of Huygens's last direct descendant, Susanna Louisa Huygens, widow of Baron Willem van Wassenaer van Ruyven, who died in The Hague in December 1785
collection of Anna Maria Ebeling, wife of Jonkheer Paul Iwan Hogguer, who died in 1812
Anna Maria Ebeling sale, Amsterdam, 18 sqq. August 1817, nr. 37, bought by Coders
John Webb sale, London, 30-31 May 1821, nr. 145), bought by Simmons
Richard Simmons
National Gallery, London, Richard Simmons Bequest, 1847
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