…; ? on loan to the museum from Mr Verbeek, 1808;{E.W. Moes and E. van Biema, _De Nationale Konst-Gallery en het Koninklijk Museum_, Amsterdam 1909, p. 128. List of paintings that had not been transferred from The Hague to Amsterdam, 14 September 1808: ‘no. 480 _De Gouverneur Coen en vrouw, eerst Gouverneur van Batavia, Batavia in ’t verschiet_, door A.A. Cuyp; behoord aan dHr Verbeek’.}…; purchased in Rotterdam by the dealer C.J. Nieuwenhuis (1799-1883), Amsterdam and London, 1839;{According to J. Smith, _A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters_, IX, London 1842, p. 664, no. 49, ‘for a very insignificant sum’.} from whom, £500, to John Rushout (1770-1859), 2nd Baron Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, 1839;{J. Smith, _A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters_, IX, London 1842, p. 664, no. 49.} recorded at Thirlestane House, 1854-55;{G.F. Waagen, _Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated MSS., &c. &c.,_, III, London 1854, p. 208: ‘A gentleman pointing with his stick to a fleet; his wife and man-servant with a parasol’. Coll. cat. Thirlestane House 1855, no. 128, as _Pierre Both, first governor of Batavia_.} sale, John Rushout, sold on the premises (Phillips), 26 July 1859 _sqq._, no. 1590, £920, to the dealer Agnew;{Copy RKD.}…; sale, John Hargreaves (†, Accrington and Whalley Abbey, Lancashire, and Hall Barn Park, Buckinghamshire), London (Christie’s), 5 June 1873 _sqq._, no. 184, £231, to the dealer Agnew;{Copy RKD.}…; collection Kirkman Daniel Hodgson (1814-1879), Ashgrove, Sevenoaks, Kent;{Note RMA.} his son, Robert Kirkman Hodgson (1850-1924), Gavelacre, Hampshire; his sale, London (Christie’s), 23 February 1907, no. 64, £945, to the dealer Dowdeswell;{A. Chong, _Aelbert Cuyp and the Meaning of Landscape_, diss. New York University 1992, p. 487.}…; the dealer Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 1907; from whom, fl. 18,000, to the museum, with the support of E. Deen, The Hague, January 1908{_Verslagen omtrent ’s Rijks verzamelingen van geschiedenis en kunst_ 1907 (annual report of the Rijksmuseum), p. 21.}
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