Agatha de Vlaming van Oudtshoorn

inscribed with the sitter's age, dated and signed 'AEtatis · 21· A°.1640. M. Miereveld.' (AE linked, centre right)
NB: Provenance, (Possibly) commissioned by Roeloff Bicker and Agatha de Vlaming van Oudtshoorn, 1640; by descent to their son Jacob Bicker (1643-1714); by descent to his daughter Adriana de Marez-Bicker (1672-1715); by descent to her son Jan Gerard de Marez; by descent to his daughter Petronella Adriana van Zuylen-de Marez; by descent to her son Jeronimo de Marez van Zuylen (1761-1788); by descent to his daughter Petronella Adriana Oyens-de Marez van Zuylen (1784-1826); by descent to her daughter Henriette Waller-Oyens (1808-1877); by descent to her son Joannes Deodatus Waller (1844-1921); Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 27 May 1924, lot 39 (sold together with the portrait of Roelof Bicker by Bartholomeus van der Helst for Dfl. 2900); where acquired by his daughter M. Waller-de Haan (1882-1959); by descent to her nephew Arnoud Waller (1917-1989), and by descent to the present family member.
NB: Literature, E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, II, Amsterdam, 1905, no. 8595. Dr. A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, II, Vienna, Leipzig, 1910, p. 163.
NB: Exhibited. Amsterdam, Oûmannenhuis, Historische tentoonstelling van Amsterdam, 1876, no. 357. - Utrecht, Catalogus der Tentoonstelling van Oude Schilderkunst te Utrecht, 20 Augustus - 10 October 1894, no. 134.