NORTH NETHERLANDISH SCHOOL, 1575 | PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, HALF-LENGTH, WEARING A RUFF AND A BLACK HAT, HOLDING GLOVES

Possibly Roelof Roelofss (d. 1643), Haarlem, and by descent;

A. Roelofs, Apeldoorn;

His posthumous sale et al., Amsterdam, Frederik Muller & Cie., 5 April 1887, lot 611 (together with its pendant, as 'Le comte de Teylingen et sa femme', and as dated 1570);

L.J. van Teylingen, Arnhem, by 1897, and thence by descent;

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 11 May 1994, lot 162 (as circle of Ludger Tom Ring);

Private collection, Vienna;

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 3 October 2001, lot 216 (as North Netherlandish School, circa 1575);

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 11 July 2002, lot 121 (as Dutch School, 1575).

E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava: beredeneerde lijst van geschilderde en gebeeldhouwde portretten van Noord-Nederlanders in vorige eeuwen, Amsterdam 1897, vol. II, p. 461, no. 7927 (as an unknown member of the Van Teylingen family).

This work was sold in 1887 along with a pendant portrait of the gentleman's wife – a painting which later appeared at auction at Hagels, Enschede, 25 April 1994, lot 129. At the time of the 1887 sale, the sitters were identified as members of the Van Teylingen family, and the present work was more recently presented as a possible portrait of Count Augustijn Teylingen of Alkmaar (1541–1625). There is some question over the identification of the arms, however, which do not appear in the heraldic collections of the Central Bureau of Genealogy, The Hague.