The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Gherwen, Matthias van		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	427
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	2408 fol.2 and foll., film 2408
Date	1653/01/30
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Notarial
Purpose	death inventory of Matthias van Gherwen who died ab intestato
Family Name	Gherwen
Owner Name	Gherwen, Matthias van
Residence	Amsterdam
Religion	Reformed/Remonstrant
Introduction	Inventaris ende specificatie van alle de goederen soo ende sulx d selve bij de E. Matthias van Gherwen metter doot ontruijmt ende nagelaten sijn, gedaen maken bij ende ten versoecke van d' heer Johan van de Poll oudt schepen ende raedt deser stede Amstereldamme, man ende voogt van Juffr. Duijffje van Gherwen, d'E. Pieter van Buren vader ende voogt van sijne onmondige kinderen geprocreert bij zal. Yda van Gherwen ende Niklaas van Gherwen voor hem selven alle indie qualite erffgenamen ab intestato van de voorn. Matthias van Gherwen, zijnde de boedel getaxeert door Lysbeth Martens ende Susanneken Anthonis. Postscript: Compareerde d heer Johan van de Poll, Pieter van Buren ende Niklaas van Gherwen in qualite als vooren ende verklaarden d'voorstaande inventaris oprecht ende deughdelijcken inventaris ... van alle de goederen die de gemelde Matthijs van Gherwen haen broeder ende swager respectivelijck ... in Amsterdam desen 29 januarij 1653 in presentie van Leendert Pietersz. ende Hendrick de Winter als getuijgen hier overgestaen.
Commentary	Mattheus van Gherwen was the son of Isaack van Gherwen (of INVNO 237). Since he was of major age (over 25) when his father died in 1647, he had to be born before 1622. He may have been a son from his father's first marriage with Duyfgen Roch (buried on 10 February 1613) or from his father's second wife Maria van Warmont who was buried on 27 December 1621 (Isaack van Gherwen did not remarry with Bartha Warmont until May 1624). The first possibility is a bit more likely because he owned a painting by Rijnevelt, and the mother of Duyfgen Roch, his father's first wife, was named Lijsbeth van Rijnevelt. Yda van Gherwen, married to Pieter van Buren II (cited in R 31804 of Montias2), and Duyffje van Gherwen, married to Johan van de Poll (cited in the INTRO), were then probably the half sisters of Matthias van Gherwen. Niklaes van Gherwen (of INVNO 1178) was his half brother by Isaack van Gherwen's third wife Barta Warmont (see also Elias, Vroedschap van Amsterdam, p. 409). The inventory of the goods brought to marriage by Niklaes van Gherwen to Cornelia Warmonts, dated 24 February 1654 (INVNO 1174), contains several paintings in the present inventory. Mattheus van Gerwen, like his father, was a Remonstrant.
Notary	J. van Winter
Appraiser	Lysbeth Martens and Susanneken Anthonis
Total Value	6453 |d
Art Value	578 |d
Book Value	1606 f.
# of Items	36
Montias1 #	328