...; collection Sir Adrian Conan Doyle (1910-1970), Schloss Lucens, Switserland;{Kubes erroneously states that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Adrian’s father, owned the statue, but this does not accord with the provenance of the piece in the Bern sale catalogue: ‘Sammlung Conan Doyle, Schloss Lucens’. Sir Arthur never lived in this castle. W. Halsema-Kubes, ‘Een Ursula-beeld door Henrik Douvermann’, _Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum_ 23 (1975), pp. 63-65, esp. p. 63.} his sale, Bern (Galerie Jürg Stuker), 20 November-17 December 1974, no. 4736, Sf. 126,000 (fl. 123,006), to the museum, with the support from the Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk Werk, the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop on the occasion of the retirement of Dr A.F.E. van Schendel as director of the Rijksmuseum on 3 June 1975
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