Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

By descent in the family of the sitter, Utrecht;

Marinus Crommelin, Utrecht, by at least 1890, until 1905;

Thence by inheritance to Mr Claude A. Crommelin, The Hague, by 1926;

With Edward Speelman, London, 1958–59 (when advertised in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CI, no. 675, June 1959, plate V);

From whom acquired in 1959 by the father of the previous owner;

By whom anonymously sold (‘The Property of a Lady’), London, Christie’s, 3 July 2012, lot 6;

Where acquired.

The Hague, Pulchri Studio, Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen van Oude Meesters, Winter 1890–1891, no. 2 (lent by Mr M. Crommelin, Utrecht).

E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batavica, vol. II, Amsterdam 1905, p. 513, no. 8330;

K. Bauch, Jacob Adriaensz. Backer. Ein Rembrandtschüler aus Friesland, Berlin 1926, pp. 17 and 91, no. 160, reproduced pl. 9 (as an early work);

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandtschüler, vol. I, London 1983, p. 200, no. 54, reproduced p. 257;

R.E.O. Ekkart, Dutch portraits from the Seventeenth Century. Own collection. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, exh. cat., Rotterdam 1995, p. 51 n. 5;

W. Liedtke, Dutch paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven and London 2007, vol. I, p. 3;

P. van den Brink and J. van der Veen, in Jacob Backer (1608/9–1651), P. van den Brink (ed.), exh. cat., Zwolle and Amsterdam 2008, pp. 23, 39–40, 124, and 226–27, no. A65, reproduced p. 41, fig. 23;

E. Kok, Culturele ondernemers in de Gouden Eeuw. De artistieke en economische strategieën van Jacob Backer, Govert Flinck, Ferdinand Bol en Joachim von Sandrart, doctoral diss., Universiteit van Amsterdam 2013, p. 188 n. 449;

P. van den Brink, ‘Tussen Rubens en Rembrandt. Jacob Adriaensz. Backer als portret- en historieschilder in Amsterdam’, in Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis, 2016, p. 26 nn. 111–13, reproduced in colour p. 27, fig. 22, and on the front cover;

P. van den Brink, in Inside Rembrandt 1606–1669, A. Sevcik (ed.), exh. cat., Petersberg 2019, p. 196 n. 1;

P. van den Brink, in Lehrer Rembrandt – Lehrer Sumowski, A. Riether (ed.), Berlin 2019, pp. 24 and 26 n. 3, reproduced p. 120, fig. 1;

P. van den Brink, Jacob Backer. The Lost Portrait of Willem van Loon, London and Turin 2020, pp. 6, 9 and 18 n. 11, reproduced fig. 3.