...; collection Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840), Paris, before 1804, whence removed following his exile; displayed in Rome, Palazzo Lancellotti, Primo Salone, no. 8 (‘Ritratto di Rubens, Vandik’), 13 June 1804;{List of 13 June 1804 by Domenico Conti Bazzani in M. Natoli (ed.), _Luciano Bonaparte: Le sue collezione d’arte, le sue residenze a Roma, nel Lazio, in Italia (1804-1840)_, Rome 1995, app. 1, p. 40.} transferred to the Palazzo Nuñez, room no. 74, 1806-10, 1811-22;{G.A. Guattani, _Galleria del Senatore Luciano Bonaparte_, 2 vols., Rome 1808, II, p. 7.} offered by Lucien Bonaparte now Prince of Canino, to the Accademia di San Luca for 2500 scudi, 1820;{M. Natoli (ed.), _Luciano Bonaparte: Le sue collezione d’arte, le sue residenze a Roma, nel Lazio, in Italia (1804-1840)_, Rome 1995, app. 3, p. 44.} application for a license to export to Bologna, as ‘Wandick: Ritratto di Rubens’, 17 October 1823;{M. Natoli (ed.), _Luciano Bonaparte: Le sue collezione d’arte, le sue residenze a Roma, nel Lazio, in Italia (1804-1840)_, Rome 1995, app. 4, p. 45.} application for an export license for the purpose of sale, as ‘Ritratto di Rubens’, January 1826;{M. Natoli (ed.), _Luciano Bonaparte: Le sue collezione d’arte, le sue residenze a Roma, nel Lazio, in Italia (1804-1840)_, Rome 1995, app. 5, pp. 46-47.} from whom purchased by the dealer Armand-Jacques Fossard, Paris;{B. Edelein-Badie, _La collection de tableaux de Lucien Bonaparte, prince de Canino_, Paris 1997, no. 78, referring to a handwritten annotation on the Musée Marmottan, Paris, copy of _Choix de Gravures … d’après Les Peintures originales de la Galerie de Lucien Buonaparte, 1812_. B.B. Fredericksen and B. Peronnet (eds.), _Repertoire des tableaux vendus en France au XIXe siècle_ , I (1801-1810), Los Angeles 1998, II, p. 1407.} ? from whom purchased by the dealer John Smith, July 1830, with SK-C-295, and recorded in his possession as a portrait of John Baptist Franck priced at 300 gns, 1831;{It was a pendant to J. Smith, _A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French painters_ , 9 vols., London 1829-42, II, 1830, no. 800 (SK-C-295).} from whom, with SK-C-295, £ 250, to Adriaan van der Hoop (1778-1854), Amsterdam, staying at the Caledonian Hotel, London (‘A fine Portrait of J. B. Francks. By Vandyck […] from the same [Lucien Bonaparte] Coll.n in a similar carved framed comp.n Picture’), 12 July 1833;{Smith & Successors _Stock Book, 1822-1850_, p. 35; _Day Book, 1827-1836_, p. 396, _Ledger, 1829-1866_, p. 46, the National Art Library, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Van der Hoop _Lijst_, pp. 5, 23, no. 67: ‘Een Mansportret van Franks, waarschynlyk van G. Franck, Directeur van de Academie te Antwerpen Ao 1634, door Van Dyck, with SK-C-295, voor £ 1050 NB Deze 2 Schilderyen van Rubens en van Dyck zyn afkomstig uit de Verzamelingen van Lucien Bonaparte’.} by whom bequeathed to the City of Amsterdam with 223 other paintings, 1854;{Van der Hoop _Taxatie_ 1854, p. 3, no. 67: ‘Portret van JB Franks, fl. 3,500’.} on loan from the City of Amsterdam to the museum, since 30 June 1885{The present author substantially augmented the provenance reconstructed in A. Pollmer-Schmidt, ‘Catalogus van de schilderijen in de verzameling van Adriaan van der Hoop’, in E. Bergvelt et al. (eds.), _De Hollandse meesters van een Amsterdamse bankier. De verzameling van Adriaan van der Hoop (1778-1854)_, exh. cat. Amsterdam (Amsterdams Historisch Museum/Rijksmuseum) 2004-05, pp. 135-195, p. 148, no. 51.}
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