The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Conincksloo, Gillis van		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	733
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	WK 5073/942
Date	1607/03/01
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Orphan Chamber
Purpose	auction
Family Name	Conincksloo
Owner Name	Conincksloo, Gillis van
Life Dates	1544 |d 1606
Marriage Date	1570; 1603/08/23
Occupation	Artist |a Painter
Residence	Op de Turffmarkct in Amsterdam.
Religion	Reformed
Introduction	Op ten eersten Marty 1607 zyn ter ordonnancie van de heeren weesmeesteren vercoft de goederen achtergelaten by Gillis van Conincksloo op ses weecken dagh.
Commentary	The painter Gillis van Conincxloo was born in Antwerp in 1544. He married Maeyken Robroeck in Antwerp and, after her death, Geertgen van Eeden in 1603. He lived in Middelburg from the beginning of 1585 to 1587, then spent 8 years in Frankenthal. In the middle of 1595, he settled in Amsterdam, of which he became a citizen in 1597. He died in 1606. He was an ardent Calvinist (Briels, Zuidnederlandse immigratie, pp. 221-222). In the year of his death, 1606, he bought lots in the Haarlem lottery for 12 st. voor Helena jongh in jaren, rijckt sij een goet lot, sij sal wel bewaren (Helena was his daughter) (20/37 F 138). N. de Roever suggested, on the basis of the similarity in titles of certain lots, that several paintings and water colors in the sales held at the request of Hans van Conincxloo (INVNO 749), [anonymous] (INVNO 750), and Pieter Isaacksz. (INVNO 751) belonged to the estate of Gillis van Conincxloo ( Oud Holland 3(1885), pp. 40-44). In some cases, indicated in the NOTES for these works of art in Montias2, I have indicated that the identity was at least plausible. In the case of the sale held at the request of Pieter Isaacksz., in which there is a single coincidence of titles, the identity seems improbable to me.
Notary	G. Jacobs
Total Value	3557 |d 17 st.
Art Value	3208 |d
# of Items	559
Montias1 #	634