Portret van Cornelis Bega, Leendert van der Cooghen, c. 1654

...; sale, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-98), Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 3 March 1800 sqq., Album C, no. 38 (‘De portraitten van C. Baga [sic] en L. van der Koogen, op een blad, door die beide Meesters’), fl. 2.5, to ‘Hulswit’;{Copy RKD.}…; collection Jonkheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein (1756-1821), Amsterdam and Velzen (L. 2987); his son, Jonkheer Pieter Hendrik Goll van Franckenstein (1787-1832), Amsterdam and Velzen; sale, Johan Goll van Franckenstein (1756-1821), Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 1 July 1833 sqq., Album AA, no. 29 (‘Leendert van der Koogen. Breed met zw. krijt, door C. Bega’), fl. 8, to Engelbert Michaël Engelberts (1773-1843), Hoorn and Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.}…; ? the dealer Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig, by 1843;{P. van den Brink and B.W. Lindemann (eds.), _Cornelis Bega: Eleganz und raue Sitten_, exh. cat. Aachen (Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum)/Berlin (Gemäldegalerie) 2012, p. 258.}…; sale, Antonius Wilhelmus Mari Mensing et al. [section Hermanus Philippus Gerritsen (1850-1917, The Hague)], Amsterdam (F. Muller), 29 (1 December) November 1939 sqq., no. 98, with over 2,100 other objects, bought in at fl. 3,000;{Copy RKD.} from the dealer F. Muller, Amsterdam, fl. 3,725, en bloc, to the dealer P. Brandt, Amsterdam, for the museum (L. 2228), with support from the F.G. Wallerfonds (L. 2760), 1940

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