| Commentary | Gabriel Claesz. was the son of Anthony Claesz. de Jonghe (I), broker, of R 21180 of Montias2. He was the brother of the painter Anthony Claesz. (II) of R 34333, also of Montias2, and the guardian over the latter's children (Bredius, Künstler-inventare, vol. 5, 1782-7). Jeremias de la Croix de jonge, at whose request the inventory was drawn up, was the son of Jeremias de la Croix de oude of R 25265 of Montias2. On 7 April 1634, Gabriel Claesz., Rodolphus Meyer, husband of Lysbeth Claes, Rogier Saper, goldsmith in Franeker, husband of Lysbeth Claes, all children of Anthony Claesz (I) and heirs of Aeltgen Moens, her grandmother, and their brother Abraham Claesz. were said to be guardians of the children of the late Anthony Claesz. Aeltge Moens (of INVNO 608), the wife of Gabriel Jansz., was the grandmother of the painter Anthony Claesz. II, of Lysbeth Claes, of Abraham Claesz., and and of Gabriel Claesz. On 16 July 1638, the younger de la Croix, assisted by his father, was betrothed to Elisabeth Coens (DTB 449/184). On 6 September 1642, the headman and the knecht of the guild of the passementwerckers (lacemakers), a certain Pieter Passchierssen, had sold the petitioner (Gabriel Claesz.) 70 pieces of cloth said to be sattyne linten, which, upon inspection, turned out to be made, not of silk, but of some unknown inferior material (Van Dillen, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van het bedrijfsleven R.G.P., 144(1974), p. 349). On 25 July 1652, Gabriel Claesz., silk spinner, brought to the Orphan Chamber on behalf of his brother Daniel Claesz., an obligation for f. 1,300 dated 3 December 1637, which was laid away in a drawer of the WK with knowledge of the masters of the WK in the presence of Dirck Bosen (Bosch) and Tobias Mayert (Bredius, op.cit., p.1785). |
