Bust of Isaac Sweers (1622-1673), Vice-Admiral of the Admirality of Holland and West-Friesland

Commissioned by the Admiralty of Amsterdam, 1673/74; from the sculptor, Prinsegracht, The Hague, inherited by Jacob Baron van Wassenaer (1649-1707), Lord of Duivenvoorde, Voorschoten, Veur etc., house Lange Voorhout, The Hague or Duivenvoorde Castle, 1698;{M. van Notten, _Rombout Verhulst, beeldhouwer 1624-1698: Een overzicht zijner werken_, The Hague 1907, p. 77. For the hereditary successsion of owners of Duivenvoorde Castle, see E.A. Canneman and L.J. van der Klooster, _De geschiedenis van het Kasteel Duivenvoorde en zijn bewoners_, The Hague 1967, p. 78; J. Aalbers, ‘_Mutando non mutor_: Van Wassenaer Warmont, Alkemade, Obdam (in het bijzonder), Duvenvoirde (na 1721), Catwijck, Sint Pancras. Late zeventiende en achttiende eeuw’, in H.M. Brokken (ed.), _Heren van Stand: Van Wassenaer 1200-2000. Achthonderd jaar Nederlandse adelsgeschiedenis_, Zoetermeer 2000, esp. pp. 182-99.} his eldest son, Arent IX Baron van Wassenaer (1669-1721) x Margriet Bentinck (1683-1763), 1707;{This and all later owners up through Eusebia Jacoba de Rode van Heeckeren - she sold the household possessions of Duivenvoorde Castle in 1793 - and up to and including Reinhard Jan Christiaan Torck - who sold the household possessions of the house on the Lange Voorhout, The Hague, in 1803 - are undocumented. The historical provenance is based on the presumption that the statue remained either at Duivenvoorde Castle or in the house of the Van Wassenaers on the Lange Voorhout in The Hague, and that it was passed down successively from one hereditary owner of the castle to the next.} their second daughter, Jacoba Maria Baronesse van Wassenaer (1709-1771) x Frederik Willem Baron Torck (1691-1761), 1721;{Via their eldest daughter, Anna Sophia Baronesse van Wassenaer (1706-1730), to their granddaughter, Hermelina Carolina Baronesse van Wassenaer (1730-1730), and subsequently to their second daughter, Jacoba Maria Baronesse van Wassenaer (1709-1771), yet the widow Margriet Bentinck held the beneficial interest in Duivenvoorde Castle from 1721 up until her death in 1763.} their son Assueer Jan Torck Baron van Rosendael (1733-1793), 1771; his widow, Eusebia Jacoba de Rode van Heeckeren (1740-1793); sold by her with Duivenvoorde Castle in 1793 or sold by their son, Reinhard Jan Christiaan Torck (1775-1810), with the house on the Lange Voorhout, The Hague, 1803;{For changes of ownership with respect to the house on the Lange Voorhout in the 18th century and later, see T. Wijsenbeek-Olthuis (ed.), _Het Lange Voorhout: Monumenten Mensen en Macht_, Zwolle 1998, p. 246.} …; ? Giacomo (‘Jacques’) Errera (?1834/36-1880) x Marie Oppenheim (1836-1918);{It was Giacomo Errera who built the family’s financial capital. In 1857, Giacomo married Marie Oppenheim. Together with his father-in-law, Joseph Oppenheim, he founded the Bank Oppenheim-Errera. He became the consul of Italy in Brussels and was the co-founder of the Bank of Brussels in 1871, which later merged with the Bank Lambert and recently the ING). See M. Dumoulin, ‘Jacques Errera, un banquier vénitien à Bruxelles’, _Rassegna Storica del Risorgimento_ 73 (1986), no. 3, pp. 267-79, and M. Errera-Bourla, _Une histoire juive: Les Errera: Parcours d’une assimilation_, Brussels 2000, pp. 29-63. For Giacomo’s genealogy and his descendants, see ibid., pp. 209-11. From 1866 (1868?) on, the Errera family resided at a house on the Rue Royale in Brussels (ibid., p. 88), and from 1874 on, at the newly built country estate Château du Vivier d’Oie on the Chaussée de Waterloo in Ukkel (ibid., pp. 102-03 and ill. on pp. 134-35).} ? their son, Léo Abram Errera (1858-1905) x Rose Eugénie May (1866-1934);{For Léo Errera, a botanist with an international, academic reputation, see M. Errera-Bourla, _Une histoire juive: Les Errera: Parcours d’une assimilation_, Brussels 2000, pp. 111-47. Léo’s widow inherited Château du Vivier d’Oie in 1918, see ibid., p. 176. His brother, Paul (1860-1922), was the owner of the renowned 16th-century ‘Errera Sketchbook’ (now preserved in the Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten in Brussels, inv. no. 4630).} their eldest son, Alfred Errera (1886-1960) x Madeleine Feron (1891-1997), and in 1945 remarried to Jeanne (‘Jenny’) Serruys (1894-1955); his daughter, Denise Errera (1918-2016) x Jean Bloch (b. 1913); her heirs, 2016; from their sale Brussels (Hôtel de Vente Horta), 12 December 2016, no. 176, € 44,000, to the museum with funds from the Scato Gockinga Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds