Adam and Eve

Received from the States of Holland in 1635 along with a St Jerome by van Leyden (Doort, WS 76, no 2), a landscape in needlework (Doort, WS 157, no 3) and the Burning of the Bones of John the Baptist and the Lamentation by Geertgen tot Sint Jans given away at some point between then and 1643 to the Duke of Hamilton now in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum (no 993 and no 991) - as well as some other luxury items. See J. Bruyn and O. Millar, "Notes on the Royal Collection-III: The'Dutch Gift'to Charles I", Burlington Magazine, 1962

Sale Inventory c.1649-51

Mabuse

Adam and Eve

Walpole Society reference (1972): 
WS 204, №304
Appraisal: 
50-0-0
Sold to: 
Marriott
Sold for: 
£50 10s
Sale date: 
17/05/1650
Appears in Charles II c1666: 
Whitehall, no 174, 165 x 109
Identification certainty: 
Identified