Hendrick van Buyten

In August 1663 he owned a painting by Vermeer when he was visited by Balthasar de Monconys.

Van Buyten told the diplomat, accompanied by two friends, he had paid 600 guilder for the painting.

[1] In a disposition of January 1676, a month and a half after Vermeer's death, Catharina Bolnes appeared before a notary to acknowledge that she had sold and transferred two paintings by her late husband to Van Buyten.

Catharina further declared that she had been paid 617 guilders for the two paintings, which she owed Van Buyten for bread delivered.

[2] Van Buyten must have delivered a great deal of bread to accumulate a total credit of over 726 guilders.