Landscape in Brazil, Frans Jansz Post, 1652

? Commissioned by Pieter van der Hagen (Cologne 1598-Leiden 1668), counsellor of Brazil; ? by descent to his grandson Johannes van der Hagen (1665-1739); ? his daughter Maria Clara (1703-65) and her husband Cornelis Backer (1693-1775), Huis Backershagen, Wassenaar; ? their daughter, Clara Elisabeth (1746-1818), with Huis Backershagen; ? purchased by Henricus Gelissen and Jan Harmen van Wensen, with Huis Backershagen, 7 June 1819; ? purchased by Christiaan Paul van Beresteyn, with Huis Backershagen, 20 November 1820; ? purchased by Jan de la Bassecour (1786-1842), with Huis Backershagen, 1837; ? purchased by Frederik Hendrik (1820-79), Prince of the Netherlands, with Huis Backershagen, 2 February 1846; ? purchased by a consortium of estate agents, with Huis Backershagen, 1910; ? purchased by Allart Gerard Nicolaas Swart, with Huis Backershagen;{See Hoek 1985 for a detailed history of the Backershagen estate.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1932; from whom, fl. 850, to the museum, as a gift from the Fotocommissie, February 1935{Provenance reconstructed in Uitenhage de Mist-Verspyck 1964.}

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