The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Limburgh, Elisabeth Hermans van		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	248
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	NA 1004
Date	1645/10/30
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Notarial
Purpose	unknown (inventory drawn up at request of the owner)
Family Name	Limburgh
Owner Name	Limburgh, Elisabeth Hermans van
Owner Notes	widow of Coenraet Willemsz. van Ceulen and wife of Jan Dorhout (1580-1665/06/04)
Marriage Date	1642
Occupation	Merchant (largescale) |a Lumber (Van Ceulen); Regent (Dorhout)
Residence	In de Nieuwe Syts Houtthuijn in Amsterdam
Religion	Reformed
Introduction	Inventaris van de meublen en huysraden van Elisabeth Hermans (van Limburgh), voor desen weduwe van Coenraet Willemsz. van Ceulen ende nu huysvrouw van Jan Dorhout soo ende alsulcx sy d'voors. meublen ende huysraden tegenwoordich possedeert...in dato in haer huysing daermet sy woont staende binnen deser stede in de nieuwe syts houtthuijn ...gemaeckt opt versoeck ende door aengeven van de voors. Elisabeth Hermans, in kennis van mij onderget. Notaris publ. ...residerende in Amsterdam. Postscript: Aldus geinventariseert ten huyse van Elisabeth Hermans ...den 30-en Octobris 1645.
Commentary	Elisabeth Hermans van Limburgh was the sister of the retail merchant (kramer) Cornelis Hermansz. van Limburgh of R 27709. (The latter's portrait is recorded in the inventory in R 5907 of Montias2). Coenraed Willemsz. van Ceulen was also a lumber dealer. In November 1628, Coenraet van Ceulen signed an anti-Remonstrant petition complaining about the appointment of Jan Claesz. Vlooswijck to command the militia (Wagenaar, Amsterdam, vol.3, p. 501). On 5 January 1630, Coenraet Willemsz. van Ceulen contributed 3,000 f. to a joint investment of lumber dealers in wood-sawing mills (Van Dillen, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van het bedrijfsleven R.G.P. 78(1933), p. 696). On 17 January 1647, Elisabeth Harmens van Limburgh, widow of Coenraed Willemsz. van Ceulen, was betrothed to Jan Jansz. van Dorhout. After her death, Jan Jansz. remarried with Annetge Jans Tiers on 17 January 1649. She was the widow of Jan Thivaert, sugar refiner and art dealer of R 20955 of Montias2 (Elias, Vroedschap, p. 305). Jan Dorhout is identical with Jan Jansz. Dorhout, regent of the Spinhuijs from 1624 to 1627, who appears to have been portrayed by Nicolas Eliasz. in the group portrait De regenten en de binnenvaders van het Spinhuijs in 1628 (See Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Schilderijen daterend van voor 1800, Amsterdam, 1975/1979, Catalogue by Albert Blankert with contributions by Rob Ruurs, p.105). Among the books found in the inventory: Opera van Perkins, Historie der Martelaers, and works of Roelof Pietersz., all of Calvinist persuasion.
Notary	Gerrit Coren
# of Items	51
Montias1 #	166