? Commissioned by Wilhelmina van Naaldwijk (c. 1455-1506), as part of a series of seven portraits of members of the Van Naaldwijk family, or ? commissioned by the chapter of Naaldwijk, as part of a series of seven portraits of members of the Van Naaldwijk family;{Hoogewerff II, 1937, p. 424.} …; recorded in the St Adriaanskerk, called Oude Kerk, 1572 (`breeckende mede eenige contrefeytselen ende schilderyen van de heeren ende vrouwen van Naeldwyck´);{Account of the iconoclasm in Naaldwijk by Willem van Hooff, steward of Huis Honselaarsdijk, in or after 1573; transcribed in Goetschalkx 1903, pp. 345-46.} by descent to Charles de Ligne (1550-1616), Prince of Aremberg;{Morren 1908, p. 9.} from whom to Prince Frederik Hendrik as part of the estates of Naaldwijk, Honselaarsdijk, Wateringen and Honderdland, 16 April 1612;{Recorded in the St Adriaanskerk, Naaldwijk; see Morren 1908, p. 9.} …; on loan to the museum from the Municipality of Naaldwijk, since September 1884, together with five others from this series until 1935,{Coll. cat. 1934, p. 12, nos. 132-35, 137.} and two others from this series until 1975{Coll. cat. 1934, p. 12, nos. 132-33.}
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