The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Alebrant, Jan Jansz.		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	202
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	NA 3174 fol. 408-409.
Date	1664/05/10
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Notarial
Purpose	sale of collection for eventual resale at public auction
Family Name	Alebrant
Owner Name	Alebrant, Jan Jansz.
Owner Notes	paintings sold to Annetje Nobels, widow of Gerrit Nobel
Marriage Date	1648
Occupation	Tailor
Residence	Amsterdam
Religion	Lutheran
Introduction	Op huijden den 10 Meij 1664 compareerde voor mij Abraham Oorthoorn notaris ... d'eersame Jan Jansz. Alebrant ten eenre ende d'eerbare Annetje Nobels weduwe van wijlen Gerrit Nobel in zijn leven herbergier geassisteert voor so veel des noot zij met my notaris haer gecoren voogt in desen, ter andere zijde, verclarende de voors. Alebrant aen haer Annetje Nobels ...vercoft ... mits desen bekende van hem Alebrant gecoft te hebben de navolgende gespecificeert schilderyen ten prijse etc.. vercoft. Postscript: Belovende zij Annetje Nobels de gemelte schilderyen ten prijse als hier vooren nevens yder gestelt staet aende voors. Alebrant te sullen betaelen uijt de penningen die by vercopinge, die zij voornemen is, metten eerste nevens haer andere schilderyen publicquelyck ande aen de meer biedende te sullen doen daer van sullen comen tot procederen, sullende de wints ende verliesen by haer daermede te doen comen voor haer Annetje reckening ende de voors. Alebrant hem moeten genoegen mette voors. somme nevens ijder den selven uijtgedruckt... Aldus gedaen binnen Amsterdam ....
Commentary	Jan Jansz. Aldebrant, tailor, married Anneke Jacobs, from Osnabrück, in 1648. He was apparently illiterate. Their children were baptized in the Lutheran Church. He lived in 1660 bij de Trippen on the Cloveniersburgwal (I. van Eegen, Jan van der Heyden als schilder Maandblad Amstelodamum 60(1973), p. 74). According to Ms. van Eeghen, he organized spurious executive sales to sell paintings, of which the present sale was one. On 5 March 1664, he appeared before the aldermen and acknowledged he owed various sums to Daniel Schellincks, Philips Wouwerman, Willem Romeyn, Jan Vermeer (probably of Haarlem), Jacob Ruysdael, Martin Tellier, Jan Pietersz. Sermis, Claes Burgers or Bourgois (painter), Jan Blanck, Adriaen van de Velde, the heirs of Josua Felbier, Jan van der Heyden, the widow of Harmen Elshoff, Willem van de Velde, Adam Coussenaer, Ernst Klenck,and Isaack Staets, totaling 1,671:13:-- f. on account of borrowed moneys. He sold the paintings belonging to these individuals in the Herenlogement for 2,286: 7:-- f. Daniel Schellincks, Philips Wouwerman, Jan Vermeer (of Haarlem), Jacob Ruysdael, Claes Bourgeois, Adriaen van de Velde, Jan van der Heyden, and Willem van de Velde (I or II) were painters. Jan Blanck may possibly be identical with the son of Harmen Janssen Blanck at whose request some goods were sold in 1626 (INVNO 992). On 28 March 1664, Jan Blanck, the widow Elshoff, Jan van der Heyden, Jacob van Ruysdael, Jan Pietersz. Sermes, Daniel Schellincks, Adriaen van de Velde, Martijn Tellier, and Abraham de Coussenaer appeared before Notary Oudthoorn and gave Alebrant a procuration to collect the sums they were owed from the Concierge (in charge of executive sales) (Van Eeghen, loc.cit., pp. 74-5).
Notary	A. Oorthoorn
Art Value	987 |d
# of Items	28
Montias1 #	120