Likely link to the 1897 British military campaign Rosalie Hans with Annette Schmidt
Nine objects have a possible link to the looting of Benin City in 1897. Contrary to the objects with a proven link to 1897, these pieces entered the museum collections in the early to late twentieth and the twenty first century, including 1916, 1926 and much later in the 1940s, 1953 and two in 1998 and 2007. These latter two were donated by well-known African art collectors, Piet and Ida Sanders. For artworks acquired in the early to mid-twentieth century the limitations of available provenance information and the stylistic features of the artworks suggest that a connection to 1897 is possible, but at this time it cannot be definitively determined through documentary research. For the pieces that came into the collections in later decades, it is mainly the stylistic characteristics of the artworks that make a link possible, as well as the well-known art dealers involved in the selling of these items. 59
