…; anonymous sale [‘Twee voorname liefhebbers’], Leiden (A.K. Delfos and P. Delfos), 26 August 1788, no. 158 (‘Een Kapitale Zee van menigte Oorlogscheepen en andere Vaartuigen, vol Krygsvolk die slaags zyn, vervolgt werden, verdri[n]ken en Vlugten, bekend door de zogenaamde Mossel-slag op het Slaak in ’t Jaar 1632. Het Rykste van Ordonnantie dat van dien Meester bekend is, op doek. hoog 40 Breet 67 Duim [104.7 x 175.3 cm]’), fl. 105, to the dealer Delfos;{Copy RKD.}…; acquired by the museum, by April 1804;{First mentioned in the museum’s inventory of April 1804 drawn up by J.G. Waldorp, no. 48; see E.W. Moes and E. van Biema, _De Nationale Konst-Gallery en het Koninklijk Museum_, Amsterdam 1909, p. 69. According to ibid., pp. 63-64, 78, the painting was bought on 11 August 1803 by E. Temminck as Aelbert Cuyp, _The Fleet Sailing from Chatham_. Moes and Van Biema also imply that it was bought from the estate of the Countess of Moens; the latter, though, is incorrect, for it was not in the sale, Maria Magdalena van Sluypwyk, Countess of Moens, Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 20 April 1803 _sqq_.} on loan to the Markiezenhof, Bergen op Zoom, since 1979
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