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| | 'Warmond Castle and Voorschoten Church in a Winter Landscape', Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraten |
 | | Kuyper believed that although the body of the church shown in the Walker’s painting was probably a generic invention its tower might represent an actual church, yet to be identified, and possibly inserted at the request of the patron. |
| | In 2005 the present owner of Huys te Warmont suggested that the church, or at least its tower, was very similar to the village church at Voorschoten, some seven miles south of Warmond, to which the Van Wassenaers had given a lot of money and in which they had their family tomb. |
| | It would, therefore, seem probable that Beerstraten was commissioned in 1661 by Jan van Wassenaer to paint a combined portrait of one of his properties, the castle at Warmond, and his family’s church, despite the fact that the two buildings were in different villages several miles apart. |
| www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /walker/collections/foreign/warmond_castle_beerstraten.asp (939 words) |
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