...; purchased by Adriaan van der Hoop (1778-1854), Amsterdam, fl. 70, between 1822 and 1828, as _Portrait of Hugo de Groot_ by Abraham van den Tempel or Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen;{Van der Hoop _Lijst_, p. 2, no. 16: ‘Idem [portrait] van Huig de Groot door van den Tempel of door Janssen v. Keulen’.} by whom bequeathed to the City of Amsterdam, as _Portrait of Hugo de Groot_ by Abraham van den Tempel, with the rest of his collection, 1854;{Van der Hoop _Taxatie_ 1854, p. 5, no. 16: ‘A. van den Tempel. Portret van Hugo de Groot, fl. 50’.} on loan from the City of Amsterdam to the museum since 30 June 1885{Provenance reconstructed in Pollmer 2004, p. 170, no. 145.}
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