The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Craijer, Louis		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	464
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	2262B, fol. 1090 and foll.
Date	1677/08/04
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Notarial
Purpose	Bankrupt inventory drawn up some time after the decease of the owner, after the remarriage of his widow.
Family Name	Craijer
Owner Name	Craijer, Louis
Owner Notes	late husband of Adriana van Gheijn, presently the wife of Gerrit Hagen
Life Dates	1623 |d c. 1677
Marriage Date	1654/12/24; 1667/10/14
Type of Ceremony	K; K
Occupation	Liberal profession |a Lawyer
Residence	Op de Boomsloot in Amsterdam
Religion	probably Reformed
Introduction	Inventaris van de goederen middelen en effecten metter doot ontruijmt bij Louis Craijer raet soo en sulx de selve op het overlijden en omtrent de selve tijt sijn geweest voor soo veel heeft connen uytgevonden werden onder 't protestatie nogtans van non prejuditie ten reguarde van de vorige gemelte inventaris en gevolge van dien aengegeven bij Jouffr. Adriana van Gheijn eerder wed-e van dito Louis Craijer en nu huijsvrouw van Gerrit Hagen. Gemaeckt by my Adriaen Lock notaris ... Actum in Amsterdam den 4-en Augusti 1677. Postscriptum: Aldus geinventariseert en beschreven door my Adriaen Lock, notaris pub.,.. ende verclaerde de inventariente dat alles op desen inventaris gestelt te hebben dat de boedel by haer man zal. op desselfs overlijden geconsideert heeft sonder haersweten [iets] verswegen [te hebben]. Signed, Adriana van Geijn. The inventory was amplified on 30 March 1678, but no works of art were added.
Commentary	On 24 December 1654, Louis Craijers, from Amsterdam, curator of the chamber of the Desolate Boedels (bankruptcy chamber), 31, no living parents, assisted by Teunis Teunisz., his swager, living on the Blomgraft, was betrothed to Anne Spiegel, from Amsterdam, 30, no living parents, living on the Westermarck, assisted by her sister Adriana Spiegels (DTB 474/79). Anne and Adriana Spiegels were the daughters of Outger Pietersz. (of R 27584 of Montias1) and of Geertge Adriaens Roos, the sister of Cornelis Adriaensz. Roos of R 31021. On 14 October 1667, Louis Craijers, widower of Anna Spiegels, was betrothed to Ariaentje van Geijn (DTB 491/16). On 19 June 1668, Louijs Craijers and Adriana van Geijn had their daughter baptized in the N.K. in the presence of Mathijs Craijers and Maria Sem (DTB 44/208). Adriana van Geijn remarried with Gerrit Hagen. On 4 April 1658 the masters of the Orphan Chamber appointed Louis Crayers to replace Jan Verwout as guardian of Rembrandt's son Titus. His relationship to Rembrandt continued nearly until the artist's death in 1669. He defended Rembrandt in a lawsuit against the preferential claim of Isaack van Hertsbeeck (the brother of Paulus van Heertsbeeck of R 32140 of Montias2). The matter was not settled until 1665 (Strauss, Rembrandt Documents, pp. 389, 513-516, 550-552). On 15 December 1667, the Desolate Boedelskamer considered the claim of Louys Craeyers, who had been named guardian of the children of Daniel Abrahamsen Beerstraten by the Orphan Chamber. Daniel Beerstraten is believed to have been the son of the the painter Abraham Beerstraten (for a summary of these claims, see the TEXT of R 543). Craijer's religion is inferred from the portrait of a preacher in his inventory. Among the creditors of this desolaet estate, Wybrant Dircx, husband of Hester Crayers, was owed money (fol. 1108).
Notary	Adriaen Lock
# of Items	22
Montias1 #	365