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Hilda van Stockum as a
Young Woman.

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WW2 BOOKS | HvS Classic Jumps to #6 from #11 on Go... Dec 23, 2015

BRAM VAN STOCKUM | Expedition 1902-03 May 8, 2016

HvS | Eleven Poems Oct 2, 2016, 1 comment

PATSY AND THE PUP | "My Favorite Book," says Hachi... Mar 31, 2016, 4 comments

HvS | Links to Her and Sibs, Ancestors Jun 7, 2016, 1 comment

HvS | Nov. 1–10th Anniversary of Her Death Oct 30, 2016

HvS | RHA Exhibitions, 1990-2000 Sep 16, 2016

ART | HvS Collections, Exhibits, Sales (Updated No... Oct 25, 2015

HvS IN VERMONT | Painting, Trapp Family Lodge, 195... Dec 21, 2016

KIN | Boissevain Reunion, April 16-17, 2016, Amste... Oct 8, 2015

THE BORROWED HOUSE | Family Portrait

"The Six Daughters of Charles E. H. Boissevain," by Thérèse
Schwartze (1852-1918).

In Chapter 4 of The Borrowed House, Janna comes upon the family portrait of the van Arkels, who owned the house before the Occupation in 1940.

The house is now occupied by a German family with connections to Seyss-Inquart as well as by Janna and her parents.

Do we have any idea whether this portrait, to which Hilda van Stockum devotes a full page, is based on a real one?

Early in the 20th century a portrait was painted that was similar to the one that HvS describes. It was  done by Thérèse Schwartze, who was a fashionable painter of portraits in Amsterdam. The children are the nieces of my grandmother Olga Boissevain, so they would be first cousins of my mother.

My original thought was that my mother had in mind a portrait in the van Loon museum, But these portraits are older.

Posts on The Borrowed House: New Edition of The Borrowed House (Purple House Press) . Letter 1 . Letter 2 . Letter 3 . The van Arkel Portrait

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