...; ? collection Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92), London;{According to the catalogue for the sale, William Esdaile (1758-1837, London), London (Christie’s), 17 June 1840, possibly no. 58.} ? his sale, London (A.C. de Poggi), 26 May 1794, possibly one of the drawings by Rembrandt in Album QQ, nos. 960-85, or Album RR, nos. 987-1009 (drawings not specified); or his sale, London (H. Phillips), 5 March 1798 sqq. (drawings not specified); ...; collection Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), London (L. 2445); from whom, en bloc, £16,000, to the dealer Samuel Woodburn (1786-1853), London, 1835;{According to L. 2445; note RMA.} ? from whom, with 99 other drawings by Rembrandt, £1,500, to William Esdaile (1758-1837), London, 1835;{According to L. 2445; note RMA.} ? his sale, London (Christie’s), 17 June 1840, no. 58 (‘Rembrandt’s portrait, a slight sketch; from Sir Joshua Reynolds’s collection’), £0.13.0, to the dealer Samuel Woodburn, London;{Copy RKD.} ...; collection Rudolph Hirsch Kann (1845-1905), Paris;{Note RMA.} ...; purchased from Edith Louise Ida Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1882-1969), Leipzig, by Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague (L. 561), 1924;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB.} his sale, Leipzig (C.G. Boerner), 4 November 1931, no. 160 (‘Jugendliches Selbstbildnis mit krausem Haar und kleinem Schnurrbart. Brustbild, leicht nach links, den Beschauer anblickend. 127:95. Feder in Braun und Pinsel in Schwarz. Aufgezogen.’), 7,000 DM, to the dealer Van Diemen & Co., Berlin;{Copy RKD.} ...; collection Isaac de Bruijn (1872-1953) and his wife, Johanna Geertruida de Bruijn-van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Spiez and Muri, near Bern, by 1932;{According to Amsterdam 1932, no. 223.} by whom donated to the museum, 1949, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum (L. 2228), 1960
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