The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Scharckens, Catharina		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	176
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	NA 1812, fol. 886-891, film 2079
Date	1654/12/07
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Notarial
Purpose	death inventory
Family Name	Scharckens
Owner Name	Scharckens, Catharina
Owner Notes	widow of Cornelis Smout
Life Dates	? |d 1654/11/05
Marriage Date	1625/12/16
Residence	Op de bloemmarckt in Amsterdam
Introduction	Inventaris van alle de goederen meublen huijsraet en imboedel die gevonden sijn ten sterfhuijs van Catharina Scharckens in haer leven weduwe van Cornelis Smout, gemaeckt by mij Albert Eggericx ....ten overstaen en versoecke van de heeren Gerard Zeijnderman en Nicolaes Smout en sijn als volcht.
Commentary	Cornelis Cornelisz. Smout, born in Aachen, was buried in 1652. He was married to Cathalijntje Bastiaens who was buried on 5 November 1654. According to Dudok van Heel, she was named Catharina Scharckens in the INTRO to the present inventory by confusion with her mother Saertge Lourens Scharkens, the widow of Bastiaen Claesz. (probably of R 21609 of Montias2). She was the daughter of the silversmith Lourens Scherkens, cited in the NOTES to R 35688. The son of Cornelis Smout and Catharina Scharkens, named Nicolaes (1626/27-1695), in his testament of 1655, left a moortje tronij by Rembrandt to Vincent Hillemsberch and a painting representing de stilte (silence) to Johannes de Weert. According to Dudok van Heel, the connection of Nicolaes Smout with Rembrandt may have been through the militia. One of Nicolaes Smout's bequests in his testament of 1655 was to Guilliam van Swenderijck, who was the son of Elbert Willemsz. portrayed in The Night Watch. Swenderwijck was a schutter in the same regiment as Smout. The Smout family owned land in the Beemster where Carel Fabritius (one of whose paintings was owned by Nicolaes Smout) was born (Maandblad Amstelodamum 68(1981), pp. 29-30). Daniel Smout (1641-1690) was apparently the brother of Nicolaes Smout. He had an uncle of the same name (the son of Cornelia van der Hulst who was married to Cornelis Smout I, the father of Cornelis Cornelisz. Smout), who was buried on 19 June 1645 (Dudok van Heel, op. cit., pp. 29-30.)
Notary	Albert Eggericx
# of Items	60
Montias1 #	96