Portrait of Engelbert II, Count of Nassau, Master of the Portraits of Princes, c. 1480 - c. 1490

...; ? estate inventory, palace of the Nassau family, Brussels, 1618, no. 31 (‘Le pourtraict de Messire Engelbert de Nassau, peint à huile, sur bois’);{Transcribed in Pinchart 1864, p. 276, no. 31.} …; Hollingworth Magniac (1786-1867), Colworth House, Bedfordshire, known as the Colworth collection, 1862;{Charles Robinson, Notice of the principal works of art in the collection of Hollingworth Magniac, Esq., of Colworth, unpublished 1862; see the catalogue for his sale, London, Christie’s, 2 July 1892 sqq.} his sale, 2 July 1892 sqq., no. 77, as unknown Flemish master, dated 1497, 120 gns, to the dealer Durlacher;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Wickham Flower, Guildford and London, 1899;{London 1899, p. 11, no. 47.} his deceased sale, et al., London (Christie’s), 17 December 1904, no. 46, 270 gns, to the dealer Dowdeswell;{Copy Sotheby’s London.} …; collection Berthold Richter, Berlin, 1906;{Berlin 1906, p. 28, no. 93.} ...; sale, Rudolf Peltzer (†) (Cologne) et al., Amsterdam (F. Muller), 26 May 1914 sqq., no. 329, as Anonymous, 15th century, fl. 7,000;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Michiel Onnes van Nijenrode (1878-1972), Kasteel Nijenrode, Breukelen;{Information from the collector.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 4 July 1933 sqq., no. 4, fl. 5,200, to the dealer J. Goudstikker, for the museum, as a gift from Dr Hans Wilhelm Christian Tietje (1895-?), Amsterdam, 1933{Copy RKD.}

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