The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Mitz, Samuel		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	1213
Call Number	DBK 5072/358
Date	1652/09/28
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Desolate Boedelskamer
Purpose	inventory of insolvent individual
Family Name	Mitz
Owner Name	Mitz, Samuel
Life Dates	1620 |d ?
Marriage Date	1643/12/24
Type of Ceremony	K
Occupation	Merchant (largescale)
Residence	Amsterdam
Religion	probably Calvinist
Introduction	Inventaris van de meublen, huysraedt ende inboel bevonden in de boedel van Samuel Mitz. Postscript: Aldus geinventariseert ende beschreven den 27e en 28e september 1652.
Commentary	On 24 December 1643, Samuel Mitz, from Amsterdam, merchant, 23, assisted by his mother Maria de Mareez, was betrothed to Alida Copit, from Amsterdam, 18, living in Naerden, assisted by her sister Oet Coppit (DTB 460/166). On 29 December 1658, Samuel Midts and Aeltje Coppit had their daughter Helena baptized in the Z.K. in the presence of Pieter Adolfsz.(?) and Maria Bagers (DTB 94/450). On 1 February 1661, Samuel Mits and Aeltje Coppit had their daughter Cornelia baptized in the W.K. in the presence of Willem van Stellinckwerf and Oopien Coppit (DTB 105/275). Samuel Mits's father was Daniel Mits I. Oopje Coppit (Aeltje Coppit's sister) married Marten Pietersz. Dey. The couple was painted by Rembrandt (see INVNO 974). On Maria de Marees's family, see the TEXT of R 216. A sister of Samuel Mits, named Ester (daughter of Daniel Mits I and Maria de Marees), was baptized in the N.K. on 4 January 1632 (DTB 41/172). On 14 July 1632, Mr. Jacobus Landtsman, advocate, accompanied by Jacob Lantsman equipage master of the Admiralty, his father, and the honorable Henrickje Willekens, his mother, and by Johan Lantsman and Andries Lantsman, predikant in Leiden, signed a pre-nuptial contract with Hester Mits, assisted by her mother Maria de Mares and by her brothers, the honorable Daniel, Joannes, and Samuel Mits, Thijleman Roosterman, her brother-in-law, and by her uncles the honorable Jan de Mareez, Jacques de Win[dt], Pieter (du) Bary, and Antonis Verspreet (NA 988, act 66, Not. J. Bosch). Pieter du Bary was married to Sara de Marees II, the sister of Maria de Marees. Antonis Verspreet (of R 25596) was married to Caterina de Marees, another sister of Maria de Marees (the mother of Hester Mits). It was probably Daniel Mits (or Mets) I who witnessed the baptism of Johannes, son of the printmaker Pieter Serwouters (the brother of Philip Serwouters of R 22040), and of Sibille Vogelt (Voogt) on 27 August 1623 (Oud Holland 4(1886), p.80). On 30 March 1644, Jan Mits, son of Daniel Mits (I) and of Juffr. Maria Mits (de Marees) signed a pre-nuptial contract with Cornelia Vinck, accompanied by her mother Catharina Vinck, Willem Lodder, advocate, her uncle, Juffr. Machtelt van Hooren, her aunt, and Cornelis Hoppesack, her nephew (N.A. 988, act 44, Not. J. Bosch). Samuel Mits signed the 1645 petition of numerous merchants in Amsterdam calling for the enforcement of currency regulations issued in 1622 (Van Dillen, Wisselbanken R.G.P. 59(1625), p. 89). His brother, Daniel II, married Susanna Runtvlees on 19 April 1653 (Nederlandsche Leeuw 70(1953), col. 382). According to a deposition dated 23 August 1633, Daniel Mits de jonge (II) acted on behalf of his father Daniel Mits in having goods loaded on a ship bound for Spain (NA 694B, film 4890, Not. J. Warnaerts). Daniel Mits (II?) was one of the creditors of Anthony Davelaer, insolvent, who signed an agreement with him to reduce his debts on 1 March 1648 (DTB 5072/872). Davelaer and Daniel Mits II were also signers of the petition cited above.
# of Items	51
Montias1 #	1132