**For both the present painting (SK-A-829) and its pendant (SK-A-828)**
? Commissioned by or for the sitters; ? their son, François Leydecker (1650-1718), Sint-Maartensdijk, near Tholen; ? his daughter, Charlotte Maria Leydecker (1695-1746), Delft; ? her son, Gerard Cornelis van Riebeeck (1722-1759), Huis Essensteyn, Voorburg; ? his widow, Charlotte Beatrix Strick van Linschoten (1732-1795), Huis Essensteyn; her nieces, Jeanne G.C.B van Lynden (1762-1832) and Sophia M.A.L. van Lynden (1767-1834), Huis Essensteyn; ? their sister, Anna U.E. van Lynden (1773-1851), Huis Essensteyn; ? her brother, Jonkheer Jan Hendrik van Lynden van Lunenborg (1765-1854), Huis Essensteyn; his daughter, Jonkvrouw E.J.C.G.M. van Lynden (1796-1860), Huis Essensteyn; by whom bequeathed to her second cousin, Jonkheer J.H.F.K. van Swinderen (1837-1902), Balk (Friesland), with 24 other family portraits, 1860;{Provenance reconstructed in F.G.L.O. van Kretschmar, ‘To be or not to be: De Van Riebeeck portretten in het Rijksmuseum’, _Jaarboek van het Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie_ 38 (1984), pp. 97-139, esp. pp. 100, 102-05.} by whom donated to the museum, as Anonymous, with 24 other family portraits, June 1884{NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 164, nos. 264 (19 June 1884, no. 1621), 268 (2 July 1884, no. 128), 269 (11 July 1884, no. 138); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 39, p. 353, no. 37 (12 July 1884), p. 354, no. 40 (16 July 1884).}
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