Commissioned by the sitters, c. 1647-51;{F. Scholten, ‘Bust of Pieter Spiering (1595-1652), Silfvercrona till Norsholm’, in F. Scholten and B. van der Mark (eds.), _European Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum_, online coll. cat. Amsterdam 2022.} their son Johan Philip Spiering;{I.M. Veldman, ‘Portrait of an Art Collector: Pieter Spiering van Silvercroon’, _Simiolus_ 38 (2015-16), pp. 228-49, esp. p. 240.} …; from the dealer Alavoine, Paris, to Heim Gallery, London, 1970; from which, with pendant, [BK-1971-115-B](/en/collection/BK-1971-115-B/catalogue-entry), fl. 7,500 for both, to the museum, with the support of the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop, 1971
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