Michael Sittow (who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting) returned to Reval where his stepfather seized his parents' houses since his mother had died in 1801, meanwhile, the local court did not support his claim for an inheritance, so he had to go to the Court of Higher Instance in Lbeck, and then later won the case.
In the same year, he returned to Reval where his stepfather, the glass-maker Diderick van Katwijk had seized his parents' houses, as Michael's mother had died in 1501. 
