…; collection James II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland ('The Kings Great Closet', Whitehall Palace, London, as either no. 21, as Peter Nisse (‘The prospect of a Church’){Mss in the office of the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, St James’s Palace, London, dated 15 February 1688 (o.s. = 25 February 1689), thus shortly after William, Prince of Orange, had become King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland.} or as no. 557, as Peter Neefs (‘A Perspective of a Church’);{_A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second etc._, printed for W. Bathoe, London 1758, p. 48.} sent by King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland, with other pictures from the English royal collection to his hunting lodge, Het Loo, Apeldoorn, c. 1700; by whom bequeathed to Prince Johan Willem Friso (1687-1711),{His seal is on the reverse, as pointed out in the 1903 museum catalogue; see also under SK-A-346.} but claimed by the English Crown, 3 August 1702, as no. 19 of the Earl of Stanhope’s list;{R. van Leeuwen (ed.), _Paintings from England, William III and the Royal Collections_, exh. cat. The Hague (Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis) 1988-89, no. 19; K. Jonckheere, _The Auction of King William’s Paintings 1713: Elite International Art Trade at the End of the Dutch Golden Age_, Amsterdam 2008, Addendum 3, p. 259, no. 19 (‘La perspective du dedans d’une Eglise par Pierre Deneffe’).}Het Loo, Apeldoorn, 1702-63;{Valued in 1712, as in ‘De Groote Galderije’, no. 67 ‘Tempeltje van Neefs’ fl. 80/90, see S.W.A. Drossaers and T.H. Lunsingh Scheurleer, _Inventarissen van de inboedels in de verblijven van de Oranjes en daarmee gelijk te stellen stukken 1567-1795_, 3 vols., The Hague 1974-76, I, p. 698. Listed in the inventory of 1713, as in the ‘Galderijen van Schilderijen’, no. 841, ‘Een catholijke kerk of perspectijff van Peter Neve’, see idem, I, p. 677, in the inventory of 1757/59-63 in ‘Het schilderijcabinet’ … no. 124, ‘Een kerk met figuuren, zijnde de kerk tot Antwerpen 9 d. x I v. 2 d. [23.5 x 36.6 cm]’, see idem, II, p. 645.} subsequently displayed in the picture gallery of the Stadhouderlijk Hof, The Hague, listed in the inventory, no. 15 (‘Een dito kerkje, extra uitvoerigh geschildert, door P. Neefs […] D. 10 x V. 1 D. 2½ [25.5 x 32.7 cm]’), 1763-64;{S.W.A. Drossaers and T.H. Lunsingh Scheurleer, _Inventarissen van de inboedels in de verblijven van de Oranjes en daarmee gelijk te stellen stukken 1567-1795, 3 vols., The Hague 1974-76, III, p. 19; listed in the undated catalogue of the Stadholder’s Cabinet, no. 103, ‘van het Loo. Een Klein Kerkje […] door Pieter Neefs.dm 10 x vt 1 dm 2½ [25.5 x 32.7 cm]’, see idem, III, p. 223. Not removed by the French to Paris in 1795.} passed to the museum, by 1800;{Exhibited in 1800 and listed as no. 139 in the catalogue of 1801, see P.J.J. van Thiel, ‘De inrichting van de Nationale Konst-Gallery in het openingsjaar 1800’, _Oud Holland_ 95 (1981), pp. 170-227, esp. p. 204, no. 150; E.W. Moes and E. van Biema, _De Nationale Konst-Gallery en Het Koninklijk Museum_, Amsterdam 1909, p. 41, no. 139: ‘Kerk, door Neefs’ see also, p. 224.} on loan through the DRVK to the Galerij Prins Willem V, The Hague, since 1977
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