The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Polster, Andries (II)		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	1252
Call Number	DBK 5072/360, fol. 183vo-193vo.
Date	1644/05/12
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Desolate Boedelskamer
Purpose	Insolvent inventory drawn up for the benefit of the creditors
Family Name	Polster
Owner Name	Polster, Andries (II)
Life Dates	1594 |d ?
Marriage Date	1622/06/03
Type of Ceremony	K
Occupation	Merchant (largescale)
Residence	Op de Oude Schans int huys genaemt het Slot van Riga in Amsterdam
Religion	Lutheran
Introduction	Inventaris van de meublen. huysraet ende coopmanschappen bevonden ten huyse van Andries Polster, staende op de Oude Schans, genaemt het slot van Riga. Postscript: Aldus geinventariseert ende beschreven ten overstaen van Salomon Dukein (Duquesne?) als by de heeren commissarissen daertoe gecommiteert. Actum ten 10, 11, 12 may 1644. Second postscript: Op huijden den 12e may 1644, heeft Cornelis van Steenberch, coopman tot Utrecht, hem by desen gestelt cautionaris ende borgh ten behoeve van de crediteuren van Andries Polster voor de meublen, huysraet ende coopmanschappen den boedel ... competerende in de voorenstaende inventaris ... dat de selve niet vervreemt off verandert sullen werden ... Actum ten dage ende jaere als op huijden den 13 may 1644, heeft heer Jacob van Swieten, notaris, hem gestelt cautionaris ...
Commentary	On 3 June 1622, Andries Polster, from Cologne, 28, living in the Nes, was betrothed to Aeltgien van der Veen, assisted by her mother Aeltgien Becker, living in the Warmoesstraet (DTB 427/160). He was the son of Andries Polster I, who invested 900 f. in the first subscription for V.O.C. shares in 1602. Andries Polster II was a buyer at WK auction (one lot of 18 Keysers of Rome in 1626). For bio-details see the NOTES to R 23420 of Montias2. After he was declared insolvent in May 1644, his mother-in-law Aeltgien (Jaspers) Becker, widow of Balthasar van der Veen, passed a procuration on July 6 of the same year naming Balthasar van de Bogaert to obtain an accord with the creditors (DBK 5072/872). Balthasar van der Veen, named above, cannot be identical with the painter of that name (INVNO 473) who was still alive in 1650. On the basis of the contents of the inventory (especially the warehouse), it may be inferred that Polster was a dealer in tropical woods as well probably as in fine furniture, such as upright desks with painted panels, made from such woods (especially ebony). From the print of Martin Luther in Polster's inventory, it may tentatively be inferred that he was Lutheran.
# of Items	144
Montias1 #	1173