| Commentary | On 17 June 1628, Lodewijk de Bas (I), from Campen, 27 years old, assisted by his mother Susanna Renaert, living on the Coningxgracht, brewer, was betrothed to Magdalena van der Bruggen, from Antwerp, 20, assisted by Catharina Coymans, her godmother, and her neven Juriaen Straet and Pieter Coymans (DTB 433/113). Magdalena van der Bruggen was the daughter of Jeronimus van der Bruggen and of Isabella Coymans. He is almost surely identical with Lodewijck de Bast, living on the Singel (Coningsgracht) who paid a tax of 40 f. in 1631 (Kohier fol.14vo, p.5). On 27 April 1634, Lodewijck de Bas and Caterina van der Bruggen had their son Lodewijck (II) (cited in the INTRO) baptized in the O.K. in the presence of Jeronimus van der Bruggen and Caterina de Bas (DTB 6/405). Isabella de Bas, one of the four children at whose request the inventory was drawn up, was betrothed to Jacob Adriaensz. van Amersfoort on 5 November 1642 (Elias, Vroedschap, p. 492). The other two children were Susanna de Bas, married to Andries Mostard (Mostart), and Jan de Bas. On 20 September 1649, Sr. Lodewijck de Bas (I), brewer in 't Lam, declared that he had sold to Johannes Molenaer, artist-painter, a domain (hoffstede) in the Heerlijckheijt of Heemstede, where he was presently living. Payment would be effected partly in cash, partly in paintings, which would be appraised by neutral persons. Because Molenaer had paid some, but not all the installments in cash and in paintings, De Bas now demanded interest at 6 percent. He complained that as a result of the failure to deliver the paintings, he had suffered damages since he could have sold them profitably. The price of the Hoffstede was 8,200 f., which was to be paid in three installments (Bredius, Het verblijf van Jan Miense Molenaer te Amsterdam in Obreen's Archief voor Nederlandsche kunstgeschiedenis, 7(1888-1890), p. 295). Note that there were nine paintings by Molenaer in De Bas's inventory. Lodewijck de Bas (I)'s brewery, het Lam, was located on the Singel over den Voetboogdoelen. After the death of Magdalena van der Bruggen, the daughter of Jeronimus van der Bruggen and of Isabella Coymans, Lodewick de Bas I married Catharina Meulenaer on 25 June 1652 (Elias, Vroedschap, p. 492.) Catharina Meulenaer may have been related to Jan Mienze Molenaer. After the death of Lodwewijck de Bas I in 1657, a notarial act stated that his son Lodewijck de Bas II owned three quarters of the last mortgage on the domain in Heemstede and the children of Elisabeth Bas (his daughter married to Jacob van Amersvoort?) one quarter. His son Jan de Bas and Jacob van Amersvoort, as children and co-heirs of the late De Bas, declared that they had tried unsuccessfully to come to terms with the administrators of the estate over the rents and interests due on their domain in Heemstede. Jacob van Amersfoort, who was the brother-in-law of Jan de Bas, declared that he would be satisfied with any action Jan de Bas would undertake (Bredius in Obreen's Archief p. 296). On 2 January 1658, Jan and Lodewijck de Bas (II), together with Jacob van Amersvoortt, married to Isabella de Bas, merchants in Amsterdam, and holders of the mortgage letters ... brought a suit against Jan Mienze Molenaer, master painter in Heemstede. He is asked to return a capital sum of 2,733 f. 6 st. 8 pen. plus arrears on interest amounting to 889 f. 8 st. for eight years. He wages a countersuit (Bredius, Künstler-inventare, p. 158 of the Nachträge). On February 2nd 1662 Jacob van Amersfoort contracted with Jan Mienze Molenaer to have a painting made of Arent Pieter Gysen, a playlet of Bredero. The contract was signed in Haarlem. Lodewijck de Bas II (1634-1700) was 26 years old in 1660 when he was listed among the horse lovers belonging to an elite manege in Amsterdam (Jaarboek Amstelodamum 65(1960), p.75. On 16 April 1666, he settled some outstanding debts arising from a mortgage held by him on the estate house owned by Jan Mienze Molenaer. Molenaer had paid for the interest on the mortgage, which had lapsed for 14 years, with cash and pictures, all but f. 55: 5: 8, which he promised to repay within six weeks with his brushes. If these pictures were not considered satisfactory by Johannes Wils and Batholomeus Hels, Molenaer would have to pay this sum in cash (Bredius, Künstler-inventare, pp. 23-4). On 11 December 1674, Lodewijck de Bas II, lord of Hostermeer, transferred to the widow of Bartholomeus van der Helst (Anna du Pire) an obligation for 2,000 f. issued by the heer Marten Pauw (former burgomaster of Delft). She averred that she was satisfied in the purchase of a certain painting representing the Princess Maria painted by Bartholomeus van der Helst, for which the obligation would serve as partial payment (Bredius, op. cit., p. 410). Lodewijck de Bas II married 1) Elisabeth de Marez I, the daughter`of Jan Abrahamsz. de Marees and Clara Baron on 11 November 1659; 2) Maria van Stralen on 29 April 1664; and 3) Sara de Marez (1651-1704) in 1682/83. Because Sara de Marez was the daughter of the sister of Elisabeth de Marez. De Bas had to get special permission from the Court of Utrecht to marry her (Elias, Vroedschap, pp. 491, 493). Lodewijck de Bas I's son Jan (Johan) married Elisabeth de Marez III (1636-1667) on 8 August 1654 (Elisabeth was the daughter of Jan Danielsz. de Marez and the niece of Abraham de Marees I); after the death of Jan de Bas, she remarried with Johan van Wallendael Caspersz., the son of Jasper (Casper) van Wallendael of R 20606 in 1663 (Jaarboek C.B.G. 44(1990), p. 181). |
