? Commissioned by the Orange family as a gift for Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg, the sitter’s uncle and guardian; first recorded in the Royal Palace, Berlin (Royal Collections of Prussia), 1779 (‘Eine kleine Prinzessin auf eine Distel tretend’);{F. Nicolai, _Beschreibung der Königlichen Rezidenzstädte Berlin und Potsdam, aller daselbst befindlicher Merkwürdigkeiten und der umliegenden Gegend_, II, Berlin 1786, p. 884. See also O. ter Kuile, _Adriaen Hanneman (1604-1671): Een Haags portretschilder_, diss. Utrecht University 1976, p. 82.} probate inventory, Royal Palace, Berlin, 1793, no. 10 (‘[...] junges Mädchen. Ganze Figur. 4⅓ x 3’);{O. ter Kuile, _Adriaen Hanneman (1604-1671): Een Haags portretschilder_, diss. Utrecht University 1976, p. 82.} inventory of paintings, Royal Collections of Prussia, 1811, no. 4111 (‘Portrait einer Jungen Prinzessin’);{O. ter Kuile, _Adriaen Hanneman (1604-1671): Een Haags portretschilder_, diss. Utrecht University 1976, p. 82.} recorded in the Royal Palace, Potsdam, 1896 (as Princess Albertine Agnes of Orange-Nassau, wife of Prince Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz);{A. Bredius and E.W. Moes, ‘Adriaen Hanneman’, _Oud Holland_ 14 (1896), pp. 203-18, p. 211.} assigned to the State of Prussia after the abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II, 1918;{A. Staring, ‘De portretten van den Koning-Stadhouder’, _Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek_ 3 (1950-51), pp. 151-96, p. 162.} Royal Palace, Berlin, until c. 1945;{O. ter Kuile, _Adriaen Hanneman (1604-1671): Een Haags portretschilder_, diss. Utrecht University 1976, p. 82.}…; or, ? collection Mrs Alexandra Zubkow, née Princess Victoria of Prussia (1866-1929);{R. van Luttervelt, ‘Drie portretten’, _Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum_ 5 (1957), pp. 108-13, esp. p. 109. …; from the dealer C. Reinheldt, Berlin, fl. 10,000, to the museum, through the mediation of G. Cramer, The Hague, 12 April 1955
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