The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; Lorraine and Barry Friner, Baltimore, MD by purchase, May 2000; Alex Cooper Auctioneers, Towson, MD; Unknown owner; Galerie Guy Stein, Paris, February 17–March 9, 1940, lot 46; Sancholle by purchase, 1908; Evert Moll Sr. of Rijswijk and W.M. Helmich of Zwolle Collections Sale, Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, December 15–16, 1908, lot 32; formerly collection of Evert Moll Sr., Rijswijk, NL.

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Jan Six. “Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy.” Oud Holland IV (1886), pp. 81–108.

Van Heel, S. A. C Dudok. “De schilder Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy (1588-1650/56) en zijn familie.” In Liber Amicorum Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, edited by C. P. Briët en N. Plomp, 152–60. The Hague: Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, 1985.

Ger Luijten et al, Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art, 1580–1620 (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1993), pp. 313, 595–6.

Sluijter, Eric Jan. “Odd Man Out: Nicolaes Elias Pickenoy and Amsterdam History Painting in the 1630's and 1640's', in Festschrift in Honor of Alison McNeil Kettering, 2014 (http://apps.carleton.edu/kettering/).

On Prints:
Orenstein, Nadine M. et al. Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.

On Ships/Marine Imagery:
Chatterton, E. Keble. Old Ship Prints. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1927.
Niemeijer, J.W., and Irene de Groot. Four Centuries of Naval Art from the Rijksmuseum: Sailing Ships in Dutch Prints. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1982.

On Attire:
Oddens, Joris. “You can leave your hat on: Men’s portraits, power, and identity in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic.” The Seventeenth Century 36, no. 5 (2021): 797-853.

Inscribed: RECTO: Upper right corner of panel, painted into the painting reads: AEtatis . Suae. 47 / Ano . 1626 . VERSO: Small paper label, upper right Corner, questionably handwritten in ink, 2093; Smaller Paper Label, Upper center, handwritten in ink: 403 Upper center just left of '403' label, questionably printed writing in pencil/graphite directly on panel: N...10 Printed paper label,lower left: NICOLAES ELIAS/Amsterdam 1588 - mort entre 1653 et 1656/32 Portrait d'un capitaine de vaisseau./Un type admirable de ces intrépides navigateurs hollandais du/commencement de XVIIe siècle, se tient debout près d'une table/couverte d'un tapis vert. Sur son haut corps robust, une tête/aux traits accentués: sourcils froncés, yeux perçants nez droit,/grandes moustaches et petite barbe carrée aux poils roussâtres./La main droite, crispée, repose sur la table où l'on voit son chapeau/et le dessin d'une manoeuvre de vaisseau. La gauche est repliée/sur la hanche./Pourpoint noir avec manteau de même étoffe, drapé autour/des reins. Petit collerette droite en batiste./Daté: Aetatis suae 47 An 1626 (interpreted)/Bois. - Hauteur 121, largeur 89 centimètres./Superbe portrait d'une allure noble et sévère./Voir la reproduction. Handwritten onto the previous printed label's margin: Ventés/Fr. Muller/(?) Amsterdam/131 16x fl 3050 + 10%/Collections Evert Moll Sr. A Ryiwck/(?) M W M Helmut/ A Zwolle (?)/etc.(?)