The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Mekeren, Job van		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	422
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	2606, film 2646
Date	1667/01/24
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Notarial
Purpose	Death inventory drawn up at the request of the widow and on the basis of a request by the aldermen of Amsterdam. See Elias, Vroedschap van Amsterdam, p. 795 note c.
Family Name	Mekeren
Owner Name	Mekeren, Job van
Owner Notes	and his widow Henrietta Swanenburgh
Life Dates	1611 |d 1666/12/08 |n Van Mekeren; 1630 |d aft. 1668 |n Swanenburgh
Marriage Date	1635/10/04
Occupation	Services |a Barber/surgeon
Residence	Op den N.Z. Voorburgwal in Amsterdam
Introduction	Inventaris van alle de ghoederen so roerende als onroerende actien ende crediten so ende zulx de selve by wijlen Mr. Job van Mekeren in zijn leven chirurgijn alhier metter doodt ontruijmt ende naargelaten zijn. Ghedaan maken by ende op het aengheven van Henrietta Swanenburgh des zelfs weduwe... Postscript: Aldus ghetaxeert ende ghepriseert volgens appointement van de heeren schepenen op overgeschreven requeste onder mij notaris berustende in dato den 15 January 1667 by de ondergeschreven Ferdinandus Bol ende Hendrick Velthoen .... den 24 january 1667
Commentary	Job van Mekeren was an outstanding surgeon on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam and an amateur poet. He was born in 1611 and buried on 8 December 1666. In November 1637(?), Mr. Job van Mekeren, surgeon, issued a debt obligation in favor of Grietje, David, and Joost, children of Pieter Jacobsz. Elias, for a sum of f. 10,224 to finance the purchase of a house on the N.Z. Westervoorburgwal (NA 1420. Act 22). Pieter Jacobsz. Elias was a prominent soap boiler. On 5 October 1656, Mr. Job van Meeckeren, from Amsterdam, surgeon, widower of Lysbeth Michiels, was betrothed to Hendriettie Swanenburgh, from Weesp, 21, assisted by her father Jan Cornelisz. Swanenburgh, both living on the N.Z. Voorburgwal. They married on 29 October in Slooten. On 27 April 1668, his widow remarried with Pieter Prins, from Weesp, secretaris of the city (Oud Holland 2(1884), p. 27). He wrote a poem in the same album amicorum of Jacob Heijblock in which Rembrandt drew a Presentation in the Temple (ibid. pp. 29, 31).
Notary	Cornelis Grijp
Appraiser	Ferdinand Bol and Hendrick Velthoen
Total Value	5022 |d 4 stuivers
Art Value	919 |d 10 stuivers
# of Items	103
Montias1 #	323