| Introduction | Staet ende inventaris vande naegelaten goederen ende meublen bevonden inden sterffhuijse van wijlen Juffr[ouw] Margarietha Bosmans sal. ged. weduwe wijlen Jan Nicquet bij haer metter doot ontruijmt ende naegelaten, getaxeert ende gepriseert bij de persoonen naegenoemt . Dese naervolgende goederen sijn getaxeert bij Maritge Andries ende Barbara Jacobs gesworen wtdraechsters met assistentie van Baerent Jansz. die hem op soodaenige waeren als daermede handelaer seer wel verstaet. Postscript: Aldus getaxeert, geinventariseert ende beschreven ter requisitie ende versoecke vande kinderen ende erffgenamen van wijlen Juffr. Margarietha Bosmans weduwe wijlen Jan Nicquet, ten overstaen van eenige vande voors. erffgenamen opten xiiiie , xve, ende xixe Decembris xvi C twaelff mitsgaders opten achtsten ende xix januarij xvi C ende derthien ter presentie van Jeuriaen Corvin clercq van van (sic) mij Jan Fransz. Bruijningh openbaer notaris tot Amstelredamme residerende, .... , als getuijge hierover gestaen, sijnde alles int Register van mij notaris voorn. pertinentlijck geregistreert, omme ten behoeve vanden genen daeraen gelegen sijnde te maecken ende te leveren Acte in forma. |
| Commentary | Jan Nicquet I was born in Antwerp in 1539. He was a rich merchant from Antwerp, first noted in Amsterdam on 19 December 1593, when, together with his wife Margrieta Bosmans (or Boschmans), he passed his testament (Maandblad Amstelodamum 66(1979), p. 3). He was engaged in trade with Venice and London (Bok, Art Lovers and Their Paintings in Dawn of the Golden Age, Exhib. Cat., Rijksmuseum, 1993-1994, p. 158). Their son Jean Nicquet II was also a merchant, at one time factor for merchants in Venice, living on the corner of the Doelenstraet in den Ackerman. He married Constantia de Haze, the daughter of Hendrick de Haze and of Clara Coymans. After De Haze's death, she remarried with Albert Schuyt of R 28923. Jean Nicquet I's collection was singled out for praise by Karel van Mander, who mentioned a painting by Jacopo Bassano, a landscape by Gillis van Conincxloo with staffage by Marten van Cleef, a decapitation of Jacob by Jan Gossaert in grisaille, and a banquet of the gods by Joachim Wtewael, on copper, dated 1602. His portrait was engraved by Goltzius in 1595 (ibid). The daughter of Jean Nicquet I and Margaretha Bosman, named Margaretha Nicquet, married Gerrit Reynst I (before 1590). Reynst became governor general of the Netherlands East Indies in 1613 and died in Jakarta in 1615. After the death of Jean Nicquet II, Constantia de Haze (Haes) remarried with Albert Schuyt (of R on 8 November 1606 (Elias, Vroedschap van Amsterdam, p. 1017). Anna Schuyt, the daughter of Elbert Schuyt's first marriage with Anna Bernard, married Gerrit Reynst II, the son of Gerrit Reynst I. The couple was linked by marriage to Bartholomeus Moor and to many other prominent families. Note that Margaret Bosman continued to operate her husband's business affairs after his death (Gelderblom, Zuid-Nederlandse kooplieden, p. 309). Baerent Jansz., who appraised some of the goods, was probably the porcelain dealer of that name, sometimes called Barent Jansz. Porceleijn. |
