**For both the present painting (SK-A-5000) and its pendant (SK-A-4999)**
? Commissioned by or for the sitters; probate inventory, Maria van Strijp (1627-1707), widow of Eduard Wallis, Haarlem, 17 April 1707 (‘Twee portretten van Eduard Wallis en Maria van Strijp’);{P. Biesboer, _Collections of Paintings in Haarlem 1572-1745: Documents for the History of Collecting: Netherlandish Inventories I_, Los Angeles 2001, p. 324, no. 10.} by descent to Jonkvrouw Anna Hubertina van Reenen, née Van Reenen (1892-1974), Nijmegen and Laren; from whom on loan to the museum, as portraits of an unknown couple, 1952-2008 (inv. nos. SK-C-1414, SK-C-1415); her daughter, Jonkvrouw Dorothea Storm de Grave, née Van Reenen (1916-2006), Huis ter Heide, 1974; purchased from her estate, in settlement of inheritance tax, by the museum, with the support of the BankGiro Loterij, the Cleyndert Fonds and the Stortenbeker Fonds of the Rembrandt Association, and the Rijksmuseum Fonds, 3 March 2008
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