Portrait of Govert van Slingelandt (1623-1690), with his First Wife Christina van Beveren (1632-1656) and their Two Children, Jan Mijtens, 1657

? Commissioned by the sitters; ? their son, Barthout des H.R. Rijksbaron van Slingelandt (1654-1711), Dordrecht; his son, Govert des H.R. Rijksbaron van Slingelandt (1692-1767), Dordrecht, with all family portraits;{HRvA, Familiearchief Van Slingelandt, inv. no. 147, fol. 32.} his brother, Hendrik des H.R. Rijksbaron van Slingelandt (1702-1759), or the latter’s wife, Maria Katharina van der Burch (1707-1761), 3 Korte Vijverberg, The Hague, with all family portraits (‘de origineele portretten van Govert van Slingelandt Hr Barthoutsz. en Christina van Beveren met haar twee kinderen geschilderd in een schoorsteenstuk in de Eetzaal door Johan Mijtens, 1657’);{HRvA, Familiearchief Van Slingelandt, inv. no. 19, _Staat van stukken betreffende de familie over 1481-1727 van de hand van Maria Katharina van der Burch_, p. 9, no. 34.} their probate inventory, 1761 (‘een groot stuk kunstig geschilderd door Johan Mijtens ao 1657, waarin verbeeld worden de Pourtraitten van Govert van Slingelandt Heeren Barthouts soon en zijns Huisvrouwe Christina de Beveren, met haere 2 kinderen genaamt Barthout, en Christina van Slingelandt, zijnde de laatste zeer jong overleden 11 dec: 1656. aet: 2. maanden’);{Quotation according to the copy of the document pasted onto the reverse of the photo in the IB; see also A.N. Bauer, _Jan Mijtens (1613/14-1670): Leben und Werk_, Petersberg 2006, p. 261. Document not found in HRvA, Familiearchief Van Slingelandt.} ? their son, Barthout des H.R. Rijksbaron van Slingelandt (1731-1798), Dordrecht; ? his son, Baron Hendrik van Slingelandt (1788-1868), The Hague; ? his son, Baron Jacob van Slingelandt (1822-1878), The Hague;…; collection J.J. Thole, Huizen;{R.E.O. Ekkart et al., _Herkomst Gezocht: Deelrapportage II_, The Hague, October 2000, p. 87, no. NK 1792.} anonymous sale [section J.J. Thole], Amsterdam (Mak van Waay), 22 (23) December 1942 _sqq._, no. 22 (‘Portrait of a family’);…; private collection, Düsseldorf, 1942-44;{R.E.O. Ekkart et al., _Herkomst Gezocht: Deelrapportage II_, The Hague, October 2000, p. 87, no. NK 1792.}…; acquired for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz (inv. no. 3813), through the mediation of the Dorotheum, Vienna;{See Central Collecting Point Munich, Mü no. 8934.}…; war recuperation, SNK, 31 July 1946 (inv. no. NK 1792); on loan from the DRVK to the museum, 21 February 1955 (inv. no. SK-C-1447); transferred to the museum, 24 February 1960

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