The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Steur, Jan		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	1116
Call Number	DBK 5072/357, fol.76
Date	1652/02/16
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Desolate Boedelkamer
Purpose	Insolvent inventory drawn up at request of creditors
Family Name	Steur
Owner Name	Steur, Jan
Life Dates	1613 |d aft. 1671
Occupation	Services |a Insurer; Merchant (largescale); Regent
Residence	Op de Keysersgracht in de 3 Steuren in Amsterdam
Introduction	Inventaris van de meublen ende huysraet bevonden in den boedel van Jan Steur. Postscript: Op huyden den 16e february (1652) heeft Emont Rosch de jonge (signs Emont Ros) hem by dees onder renunciatie van benefficien ... gestelt cautionaris ende borge van de meublen etc.. Actum in Amsterdam presentibus de heeren Nicolaes van Loon, Dr. Pellegrom ten Grootenhuys ende Jacob Roch, commissarissen (of the DBK).
Commentary	In 1631, Jan Steur, living on the Keysersgracht, paid a tax of 50 f. (Kohier, fol. 93vo, p. 22). Johan Steur was one of the Regenten of the N.Z. Huiszitten-aalmoezeniershuis who was portrayed by Jacob A. Backer in a group portrait in 1651 (thus not long before he went bankrupt) (Blankert, Amsterdams Historisch Museum, p. 21.) In March 1636, Jan Steur and a number of other Amsterdam merchants participated in an insurance pool to insure ships (NA 948, film 1171, Not. Benedict Baddel). He was one of the supervisors of the inventory of Laurens Schein of INVNO 1136 of 1632. On 19 July 1632, the church wardens of Monster acknowledged receipt from Joan Steur, as heir of Sijmon IJsaecx van de Graft, of the sum of 175 f., capital sum corresponding to a rent of f. 10: 8:12 per year (RA Monster 140 #185, kindly communicated to me by Gerard Eedenburg, as are the following documents, which clearly refer to the owner of the present inventory). On 28 March 1637, Cornelis Bartels Veris (sworn broker cited in the NOTES to R 25250), armed with a procuration issued by Jacomina van Wijngaerden, widow of jonckheer Henrick van Tuijl van Gerooskercke, sold to Johan Steur a little over 3 morgen of land, next to some land already belonging to Steur in the ambacht of Monster, for 3,804 f. 13 st. 11 pen. (RA Monster 25 # 4929, fol. 67v.) On 24 May 1638, Everaert Bleijswijck, 50, and Jan Steur, 25, merchant living in Amsterdam, declared that they were co-freighters of a ship which had sailed from Maas to Bordeaux, there to be loaded at the direction of Adriaen van Bleijswijck, Everard's son (RA Monster 103 # 385). Everhard and Adriaen van Bleiwijck belonged to one of Delft's regent families. On 10 May 1645, Sr. Johan Steur, merchant in Delft, presently on his hofstede in Monster Ambacht, authorized his son Pauwels Steur to appear in his name before the Wisselbank in Amsterdam. Everaerd van Bleijwijck was a witness (Monster ONA 6037 # 992). It was probably as a consequence of his insolvency in 1652 that, on 18 October 1661, Adriaen Copmeijer, attorney, with a procuration from Jacob Claesz. Heijman, director of the V.O.C. kamer in Zeeland, one of the creditors of Jan Steur, transferred to the receiver (of taxes) of the town of Breda a domain with a little over 32 morgen, including a house, barn, and orchard (which had belonged to Steur) (RA Monster 27 # 5753 fol. 140).
# of Items	49
Montias1 #	1015