Unknown date: inherited by Casper Pellicorne (1628-1680) and Clara Valckenier (1630-1710)
Unknown date: inherited by Eva Susanna Pellicorne (1670-1732) and Adriaan Valckenier (1695-1751)
Unknown date: inherited by Anna Catharina Valckenier (1766-1842)
14 November 1842: purchased by Christianus Johannes Nieuwenhuys (art dealer),
City of Brussels/
London at the sale of the collection of Anna Catharina Valckenier, vrouw van Jhr. Jan van de Poll at an unknown auction house,
Amsterdam , for William II of the Netherlands (1792-1849),
The Hague
12 August 1850: purchased by Samuel M. Mawson at the sale of the collection of Koning Willem II at an unknown auction house,
The Hague, lot no. 84 , for Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800-1870)
Unknown date: inherited by Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890)
Unknown date: inherited by Julie-Amélie-Charlotte Castelnau (1819-1897)
1897: bequeathed to the nation by Julie-Amélie-Charlotte Castelnau
inscription found on back of original / canvas Jan Pellicorne zoon van / Jan Pellicor... en Anna Thibaut...
Notes
this pendant pair is certainly a forerunner to the famous ‘speaking portraits’ of the Shipbuilder Jan Rijcksen and his Wife Griet Jans (1633, Royal Collection) and the Preacher Anslo and his Wife Aeltje Schouten (1641, Berlin Gemäldegalerie).
References
RKDimages, Art-work number 32616, as Workshop of Rembrandt, Double portrait of Jean Pellicorne (....-....) and Casper Pellicorne (1628-1680), circa 1633
date QS:P,+1633-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(1632-1634), height: 155 cm (61 in); width: 122.5 cm (48.2 in)
This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the
copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.