Focus on Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther and analyze the Provenance.
Part of Jan Hinlopen's collection passed to his two daughters, this painting was one of them.
Sara Hinlopen, the longest living of her family, died 89 years old, but without children.  Most of her belongings passed to Nicolaes Geelvinck and his three sisters. Unfortunately, her will does not mention any painting, most probably to avoid inheritance taxes.
In 1760 Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther was sold as number 45 at an auction, listed as coming from Nicolaes Geelvinck, and organized after the death of Gerard Hoet, a minor painter but important collector in The Hague.In 1764 the painting came to Catherine the Great, most probably through the German entrepreneur Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky, in financial trouble after the Seven Years' War. After receiving 320 paintings at one time from  Gotzkowsky, the Russian Tsarina started the Hermitage.
Probably advised by Gustav Friedrich Waagen the painting went in 1862 to the Museum Rumyantsev in Moscow. Since 1924  Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther can be seen in the Pushkin Museum, also in Moscow.
Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky Ahasuerus Provenance The Hague Haman Esther Sara Hinlopen Moscow Hermitage Seven Years' War Catherine the Great Tsarina Pushkin Museum Nicolaes Geelvinck Gustav Friedrich Waagen Gerard Hoet Museum Rumyantsev