![]() HvS | 1971 to Brigid on "The Borrowed House" (1 o.HvS | 1971 to Brigid on "The Borrowed House" (Evil.HvS | 1971 to Brigid on "The Borrowed House" (Epip.Order a copy of the new (October 2016) edition of The Borrowed House. The Borrowed House (Young Adult Bookshelf Series) (Paperback). Posts on The Borrowed House: New Edition of The Borrowed House (Purple House Press). ![]() My original thought was that my mother had in mind a portrait in the van Loon museum, But these portraits are older. The children are the nieces of my grandmother Olga Boissevain, so they would be first cousins of my mother. ![]() It was done by Thérèse Schwartze, who was a fashionable painter of portraits in Amsterdam. ![]() The house is now occupied by a German family with connections to Seyss-Inquart as well as by Janna and her parents.ĭo we have any idea whether this portrait, to which Hilda van Stockum devotes a full page, is based on a real one?Įarly in the 20th century a portrait was painted that was similar to the one that HvS describes. 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. ![]()
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