**For both the present painting (SK-A-839) and its pendant (SK-A-838)** ? Commissioned by or for Cornelis Maertensz Tromp (1629-1691), Amsterdam; ? his probate inventory, Huis Trompenburgh, ´s-Graveland, near Hilversum, 14 April 1692 (`Verdere grote portretten. Een vanden ouden heer Tromp en een van desselfs gemalinne, de 2 samen 200:-´);{W. Martin, `Een en ander uit den inventaris der nalatenschap van Cornelis Tromp´, _Oud Holland_ 19 (1901), pp. 65-76, esp. p. 74.} ? his niece, Dina Harpertsdr Tromp (1657-1699), Maurik Castle, Vught, near Den Bosch; ? her husband, Thomas van Beresteyn (1647-1708), Lord of Maurik, Maurik Castle; ? his son, Maarten Cornelis van Beresteyn (1695-1734), Lord of Maurik, Maurik Castle; ? his half-brother, Christiaan Paulus van Beresteyn (1705-1758), Lord of Maurik and Kleinen Ruwenberg, Maurik Castle; ? his wife, Catharina Wilhelmina Brühl (1723-1794), Maurik Castle;? her son, Gijsbert Christiaan van Beresteyn (1749-1810), Lord of Maurik, Maurik Castle; ? his son, Jonkheer Jacob van Beresteyn (1778-1855), Lord of Maurik, Maurik Castle; his son, Jonkheer Ghijsbert van Beresteyn (1804-1884), Lord of Maurik, Maurik Castle; his sale, Maurik Castle, sold on the premises (auction house not known), 22 (24) October 1884 _sqq._, no. 6 (`2 prachtige portretten op doek, van Admiraal Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp en zijn Echtgenoote, [schilder Jan Lievens?] Anno 1660 beide hoog 135 breed 100 cent´), fl. 2,286.67, to the museum{NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 164, no. 291 (9 December 1884); NHA, ARS, Kop., inv. 289, pp. 7-8, no. 53 (17 December 1884).}
