The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

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Inventory #	294
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	WK 5073/952
Date	1628/01/15
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Orphan Chamber
Purpose	auction
Family Name	[anonymous]
Owner Name	[anonymous]
Owner Notes	goods sold at request of Cornelis and Jan Witsen
Marriage Date	1634/11/25
Type of Ceremony	K
Introduction	Op den 15 januarij 1628 zyn ten versoecke van Cornelis ende Jan Witsen vercocht dese volgende schilderyen.
Commentary	Jan Witsen is probably identical with Jan Cornelisz. Witsen, 1569-1636, korenkooper op den Singel, captain of the militia in 1616; Cornelis Witsen was his son, 1605-1669, Regent van de Burgerweeshuis in 1638, betrothed to Catharina Claesdr. Gaeff, alias Lamberts Opsy, on 25 November 1634 (DTB 443/198 and Elias, Vroedschap, p. 437). Jan Cornelisz. Witsen, grain dealer on the Singel, next to the brewery de Swaen, dealt extensively with Muscovy. He married Margrieta Oetgens (1580-1648), the daughter of Claes Fransz. and Pietertge Laurens, on 5 January 1597. Cornelis Witsen became Schout in 1636 and burgomaster in 1654. In 1653, he lent Rembrandt 4,180 f. Rembrandt pledged all his goods as collateral. Cornelis Witsen was one of the preferred creditors with a claim on Rembrandt after Rembrandt declared bankruptcy. The debt was repaid to Witsen by the commissioners of the DBK on 22 February 1658 (Strauss, Rembrandt Documents, p. 297). A son of Cornelis Witsen, named Jonas Witsen, baptized on 1 December 1647, died on 22 September 1675. On 23 May 1669, Jacob Cardoso Ribero, 26, and Aron de Chavez, 22, declared at the request of Jan Lievens that Jonas Witsen, son of the late Cornelis Jan Witsen (who had died the previous March) had come to him, Lievens, to learn drawing and painting and had stayed with him from 1667 to 1668. They had both paid Lievens 100 f. for instruction. Both witnesses had been pupils of Lievens at the same time as Jonas Witsen (Bredius, Künstler-inventare, p.207).
Notary	G. Jacobs
Total Value	595 |d
Art Value	595 |d
# of Items	20
Montias1 #	211