**For both the present painting (SK-A-1311) and its pendant (SK-A-1310)**
? Commissioned by the sitters’ uncle, Frederik Dircksz Alewijn (1603-1665), Amsterdam; ? his probate inventory, 18 December 1665, in the central room of the house at 182 Herengracht, Amsterdam, nos. 37a, 37b, as Anonymous (‘2 schilderije contrefeijtsels van de kinderen t eene een van Martinus Allewijn en tander van de nicht de Bij’);{GPI, N-2349, no. 37.} ? his son, Dirck Alewijn (1644-1687), Amsterdam; ? his son, Dirck Alewijn (1682-1742), Amsterdam and Beemster; ? his son, Frederik Alewijn (1737-1804), Amsterdam and Beemster; ? his son, Frederik Alewijn (1775-1817), Hoorn and Beemster; his son, Dirk Margarethus Alewijn (1816-1885), Hoorn and Medemblik;{Note RMA.} his sale, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos), 16 December 1885, nos. 79, 80, fl. 845, to the dealer Muller, as Abraham van Santvoort;{Copy RMA. NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 165, nos. 491 (15 December 1885), 493 (15 December 1885), 497 (17 December 1885), 498 (18 December 1885).} from whom, fl. 971.75, to the museum, 1885
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