Eglon Hendrik van der Neer

Jacques Clemens (1713–1779), Ghent;

His posthumous sale, Ghent, 21 June 1779, lot 331 (as Adriaen van der Werff), for 121 guilders;

Miss E.N. Bostock, London, 1912;

Thence by descent to Commander J. Bostock, DSC (1897–1980), Sittingbourne;

With Richard Green, London, by 1983 (as Adriaen van der Werff);

Ambassador John William Middendorf II (1924–2025), New York;

With Otto Naumann, New York, by 1992 (as Adriaen van der Werff);

With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna (as Adriaen van der Werff);

Subsequently acquired by Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005), before 2005;

Thence by inheritance.

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Berlin, Gemäldegalerie; and London, Royal Academy, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, 18 March – 13 May 1984; 8 June – 12 August 1984; and 7 September – 18 November 1984, no. 125 (as Adriaen van der Werff);

Rotterdam, Historisch Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdamse Meesters uit de Gouden Eeuw, 15 October 1994 – 15 January 1995, no. 70 (as Adriaen van der Werff);

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum; Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum; and Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Vom Adel der Malerei: Holland um 1700, 14 October 2006 – 21 January 2007; 18 February – 28 May 2007; and 21 June – 30 September 2007, no. 61 (as Eglon Hendrik van der Neer and Adriaen van der Werff);

Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, on loan by 2006 – March 2025 (as Eglon Hendrik van der Neer).

P.C. Sutton, in Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, P.C. Sutton (ed.), exh. cat., Philadelphia, Berlin and London 1984, pp. 357–58, no. 125, reproduced in colour pl. 125 (as Adriaen van der Werff);

B. Gaehtgens, Adriaen van der Werff (1659–1722), Munich 1987, pp. 90, 92, and 195–96, no. 1, reproduced p. 195 (as Adriaen van der Werff);

C. Klein, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers, Gemalde vom XV. Bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 274–75, under no. 108, n. 2, reproduced (as Adriaen van der Werff);

M.-D. Joubert, Gaspard Gresly 1712–1756, exh. cat., Besançon and Bourg-en-Bresse 1994, p. 82, under no. 24 (as Adriaen van der Werff);

C. Thiels, in Rotterdamse Meesters uit de Gouden Eeuw, N Schadee (ed.), exh. cat., Rotterdam 1994, pp. 245 and 258, no. 70, reproduced in colour (as Adriaen van der Werff);

E. Schavemaker, in Vom Adel der Malerei: Holland um 1700, E. Mai, S. Paarlberg and G.J.M. Weber (eds), exh. cat., Cologne, Dordrecht and Kassel 2006–2007, pp. 228–30, no. 61, reproduced (as Eglon Hendrik van der Neer and Adriaen van der Werff);

E. Schavemaker, Eglon van der Neer (1635/36–1703). Zijn leven en werk, Maastricht 2009, pp. 139–43, and 409–10, no. 85, reproduced in colour fig. 96 (as Eglon Hendrik van der Neer);

E. Schavemaker, Eglon Hendrik van der Neer (1635/36–1703), Doornspijk 2010, pp. 65, 71, 73, 75, 92–93, and 486, no. 84, reproduced fig. 1 and in colour pl. XXVIII (as Eglon Hendrik van der Neer).