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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 316889, member: 2844&quot;]Beautiful painting, James, hope you will get it cleaned/restored some day.</p><p>Petrus van der Hagen was a young clergyman in the &#039;gereformeerde kerk&#039;, which is the strictest protestant church. The &#039;mainstream&#039; Dutch reformed church is called the &#039;hervormde kerk&#039;.</p><p>At a very early age he was minister to Dutch diplomats in Britain and France. He died aged 30. Several of his sermons were published. </p><p>I hope you are getting used to reading a bit of Dutch by now.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Here are some data from a Dutch genealogy site:</p><p><a href="http://alsemgeest.hele.nl/getperson.php?personID=I14160&amp;tree=Alsemgeest" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://alsemgeest.hele.nl/getperson.php?personID=I14160&amp;tree=Alsemgeest" rel="nofollow">http://alsemgeest.hele.nl/getperson.php?personID=I14160&amp;tree=Alsemgeest</a></p><p>Some general info on the Ruts family, the same site. Petrus van der Hagen is mentioned further down the page, your portrait of him is there too:</p><p><a href="http://alsemgeest.hele.nl/Geschiedenis/Familie%20in%20de%20gouden%20eeuw.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://alsemgeest.hele.nl/Geschiedenis/Familie%20in%20de%20gouden%20eeuw.php" rel="nofollow">http://alsemgeest.hele.nl/Geschiedenis/Familie in de gouden eeuw.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There was, and probably still is somewhere. Maybe James should search for Adriana van Wassenaer and reunite the young couple. In the auction info it says &quot;met pendant&quot; (Dutch), which refers to the other painting:</p><ul> <li>Lepke, Berlijn, 1897-05-04, lotnr. 163 <br /> met pendant</li> </ul><p>It also says: &quot; &#039;Umkreis N. Maes&#039;; &quot; (German) as you said, the circle of N. Maes.</p><p>It doesn&#039;t say it was originally attributed to Nicolaes Maes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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