| Commentary | Jacob Lemmich was the son of Christiaen Lemmich, beer distributor (bierbeschooier) (I. van Eeghen, Maandblad Amstelodamum 57(1970), p. 39). According to I. van Eeghen, Jacob Lemmich died in 1683, but this contradicts the date of the present (death) inventory. Perhaps the one who died in 1683 was his son Jacob Lemmich II. Another son, named Pieter Lemmich, also cited in the INTRO, was a beer distributor as well (Maandblad Amstelodamum 68(1981), p. 108). (This was almost surely the family business of the Lemmichs). Christiaen Lemmich was married to Catharina Gevers on (?) April 1657 (DTB 477/201). Catrina (Trijntje) Lemmich, cited in the INTRO as the daughter of Jacob Lemmich, was betrothed to Gerrit Dapper on 11 January 1664 (DTB 485/151). At one time or another, Christiaen, Jacob, and Pieter all owned fairly expensive houses on the Brouwersgracht and elsewhere. Jacob, who, again according to Van Eeghen, had suffered business reverses, was forced to sell three houses in 1683 (?). One of these was acquired by Elisabeth Coymans for 5,740 f. Harman van Swoll would seem to be identical with Harmen Stoffelsz. van Swoll, son of a baker, who made a fortune as controller (suppoost) of the Wisselbank. At the time of his death in 1698, Van Swoll owned Vermeer's Allegory of Faith, now in the Metropolitan Museum (Montias, Vermeer and His Milieu, 1989, p. 258). In the INTRO to the inventory of Isaack Swarterpaart (INVNO 112), he is mentioned as one of the appraisers of Swartepaart's paintings along with the well known art dealer Gerrit Uylenburgh. Jacob Lemmich owned various Lutheran books including a Lutheran Bible. He was probably Lutheran. |
