| Introduction | Op huijden den xxx Augusti 1668 Compareerde voor mij Reynier Duee S[igneu]r Pieter Fris schilder wonende alhier, ende bekende bij desen deughdelijck schuldigh te sijn aen d' eerbaere Jan de Wael mede wonende alhier eerstelijck de somme van 500 guldens metten interesse van dien tegens 4 guldens per cente in't jaer sedert 16 november 1666, item noch 600 guldens verstreeckt op 16 December 1666, noch 525 guldens vier stuivers verstreeckt 9e junij lestleden, noch 420 gulden 10 stuivers verstreeckt den xi e junij mede lestleden, alles volgen de obligatien aen mij notaris geexhibeert ofte verthoont, Verclaerde voorts hij Comparant te hebben ter handt gestelt aende gemelte h[ee]r de Wael als pant metter minne de schilderijen gespecificeert ende begrepen in het geschrift hier annex. [getekent: Pieter Fris in Amsterdam den 30 Augusti 1668] |
| Commentary | Pieter Frist was a painter and art dealer. In 1647, he was living in Dordrecht. On 7 August 1656, he was domiciled in the Bagijnstraet in Amsterdam when he made a deposition on behalf of a neighbor. He was said to be 28 in a deposition dated 7 March 1657. On 6 November of the same year, Pieter Frist, husband of Josyntge van der Hulst, named the merchant Pieter de Hooghe in Haarlem to collect some money for him in that city. On 7 October 1660, he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Haarlem (Bredius, Künstler-inventare, p. 63 of the Nachträge). On 24 November 1663, he applied for debt relief (benefitie cessionis) from the High Court in The Hague. On 3 May 1666, the printmaker Romeijn de Hooghe. 21, declared at the request of Pieter Frist, painter, living in Haarlem, that 1 1/2 years previously, he had sold to the requirant (Fris) a clock made of enameled gold with a gold chain therein, against which he had received from the requirant four paintings. On 23 October 1667, Martina van der Hulst, wife of Pieter de Hooghe, passed her testament. She made a bequest of 1,000 f. to her sister Josina van der Hulst, wife of Pieter Frist, but she specified that her sister should not pay the debts of her husband with that sum. On 23 October 1668, Pieter Frist acknowledged at the request of Josijntge van der Hulst, that he had had a child with another woman but he promised to live with his wife in harmony henceforth. On 13 June 1669, Pieter Frist and Joosyntge van der Hulst were granted separation of bed and board. The wife would keep the household goods including silver and gold objects, the husband, all paintings and other goods that he had already taken with him. He apparently resumed relations with his wife with whom he made a joint testament on 24 June 1688. Pieter Frist was buried on 23 December 1703. Some time in 1708, Josina van der Hulst, blind, widow of Pieter Fris, artful painter, made a gift to an unmarried woman of furniture and other decorative objects, under the proviso that she could keep them until her own death (all the above information is taken from Bredius, Künstler-inventare pp. 1987-9). Jan Fris, one of whose paintings appears in the present inventory, was perhaps Pieter Fris's brother. Jan de Wael must be the second of this name, the son of Jan de Wael I, an important merchant, cited in R 7663, R 23606, and R 27594 of Montias2. |
