…; Nicolaas Cornelis de Gijselaar (1792-1873), ? Leiden;{F. Scholten, ‘‘A Prayer Nut in a Silver Housing by ‘Adam Dirckz’’’, _The Rijksmuseum Bulletin_ 59 (2011) no. 4, pp. 322-47, esp. p. 326.} ? donated to his stepson, the writer Johannes Kneppelhout (1814-1885), known under the _nom de plume_ Klikspaan, country house De Hemelsche Berg, Oosterbeek, before 1885;{F. Scholten, ‘‘A Prayer Nut in a Silver Housing by ‘Adam Dirckz’’’, _The Rijksmuseum Bulletin_ 59 (2011) no. 4, pp. 322-47, esp. p. 325. Kneppelhout became De Gijselaar’s stepson in 1818, after the death of Kneppelhout senior.} with the house, to his niece Johanna Maria Kneppelhout (1851-1923) and her husband Gerard Jacob Theodoor Beelaerts van Blokland (1843-1897), Oosterbeek, 1885; with the house, to their son Jonkheer Dr Willem Adriaan Beelaerts van Blokland (1883-1935), Oosterbeek;{The Beyeren armorial in the National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, also belonged to Jonkheer Dr W.A. Beelaerts van Blokland. It was one of the few possessions taken from De Hemelsche Berg on a dog cart during the evacuation of the house in 1944 and so escaped destruction.} from his heirs, €80,000, to the museum, through the mediation of John Schlichte Bergen, 2010
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