| Introduction | Inventaris van de meublen, huysraet, schilderyen, clederen, silverwerck, ende anders bevonden ten huyse van Marcus van Valckenburgh staende op de hoeck van 't Onckelboer steechien. First postscript: Aldus geinventariseert ende beschreven ten versoecke van Srs. Balthasar Janssen ende Jacob Valckenier als curateurs by de gerechte deser stede gestelt over de boedel van de voorn. Marcus van Valckenburgh by mij Frans Bruyningh openbaer notaris begonnen den xxxe december ende geeijndicht den 1 January 1643. Second postscript (marginal note): Op huyden den 26 april 1643 [hebben] Aeltje Claes ende Annitje Hendricx gesworene schatsers getauxeert ende gepriseert de vooraenstaende meublen ende anders ten prijse als achter ijden [...] is gestelt ende verclaerden daerinnen conform(?) ende oprecht gehandelt te hebben ... in presentie van Balthasar Janssen ende Jacob van Valckenburgh als curateurs. Hendrick van der Heede signed as witness. |
| Commentary | Marcus van Valckenburgh, born in Cologne in 1587, was the son of Jan van Valckenburgh (probably of R 31706 of Montias2) and of Elisabeth van Verlaer. He married Catharina Quingetti in Cologne on 20 August 1618. She was the daughter of Christoffel Quingetti, merchant in Venice and Cologne, born in Mechelen on 1 July 1557 and of Josina Heymans. Marcus van Valckenburgh was a cloth dealer on an international scale and an investor in the drying up of marshes in England, where he lived from 1636 to 1641. On 20 April 1640, Marcus van Valckenburgh was said to be doing business in Brasil with Simon van der Does and Bonaventura Broen (NOTES to R 21230 of Montias2). His bankruptcy in 1643 was the occasion for drawing up the present inventory. Several months previously, on 8 November 1642, Marcus van Valckenburgh pledged as security for a loan from his mother-in-law Josina Heymans, widow of Christoffel Quingetti, amounting to 106,000 f. all his cloth and other goods that his factors had under hand, namely, his son Jan Valckenburgh in Florence, Tobias Martsenberch in Dantzig, Willem de Visscher in London, and Mathijs Beck, Nicolas Hack, and Samuel Falten in Brazil. On 8 March 1650, Catharina Quingetti, wife of Marcus van Valckenburgh; Daniel and Isaack Hochepied as guardians over her children of minor age; Lucretia Quingetti; Joost van Beeck, as father of the children of Cornelia Quingetti, settled the inheritance of their mother and grandmother Josina Heymans, widow of Christoffel Quingetti. On Joost van Beeck I, see the TEXT of R 81. Marcus van Valckenburgh returned to England where he was buried (in Hatfield, Yorkshire) on 27 October 1653 (see the comprehensive article on the Quingetti family in Jaarboek C.B.G. 33(1979), pp.83-4; Valckenburgh's stay in England is documented in De Nederlandsche Leeuw 54(1936), col. 15 and 16). Marcus van Valckenburgh and Catharina Quingetti had 8 children. One of them, Christoffel van Valckenburgh, baptized in Amsterdam 14 July 1630, married to Maria van Loo, became an attorney before the Court of Holland and burgomaster of Haarlem in 1693, 1694, and 1696. He died on 1 June 1697. Maria van Loo was buried on 23 January 1709. After her death, an auction sale of her paintings took place on 3 April 1709, which included works attributed to Holbein, Velvet Bruegel, A. van Ostade, Rubens, Mr. Cornelis van Haarlem etc.. (Jaarboek C.B.G. 33(1979), p.112). It is possible (but doubtful) that any of these paintings were already owned by Christoffel's father Marcus van Valckenburgh. On Balthasar Janssen, cited in the INTRO, see R 20078 of Montias2. Jacob Valckenier is cited in the NOTES to R 25313 of Montias2. |
