The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Sijbrants, Maritge		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	998
Archive	Gemeentearchief Amsterdam
Call Number	NA 568, film 6548
Date	1634/01/30
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Notarial
Purpose	death inventory of goods possessed in common with husband
Family Name	Sijbrants
Owner Name	Sijbrants, Maritge
Owner Notes	wife of Hans van Essen
Life Dates	?|d 1648/02/? |n van Essen
Marriage Date	1614/10/11
Type of Ceremony	K
Occupation	Artist |a Painter
Residence	Amsterdam
Introduction	Inventaris ende specificatie van allen den goederen nagelaten by z. Maritge Sijbrants in haer leven huysvrou van Hans van Essen schilder sulcx sij die metter doot deser werelt ontruymt ende met haer voors. man in haer leven in 't gemeen beseten heeft. Eerst den huysraet getaxeert by Aeltge Claes ende Annetge Hendrix. Schilderyen getaxeert by Franchoys Venant ende Isaack Isaacksz. tot alsulcken prijsen als volcht. Postscript: Compareerde Hans van Essen schilder weduwenaer van Maritge Sijbants verclarende de voors. inventaris oprecht ende deugdelyck inventaris. Gedaen sonder arch oft list in Amsterdam desen 30e january 1634 in presentie van Jacob Davelaer ende Claes van Zanten poorteren ende getuygen.
Commentary	The painter Hans van Essen was born in 1589, the son of the merchant Hans van Essen de oude who carried on his business in the Nieuwe Rockin since 1589 (Briels, Vlaamse schilders, 1997, p. 326). On 11 October 1614 Hans van Essen, schilder, 25 years old, was betrothed to Maritgen Sybrants, the widow of the goldsmith Anthony Boonhoff (of R 29596 of Montias2), living in the St. Jansstraet (DTB 418/316). Maritge Sybrants was the daughter of Sybrant Cornelisz. Her sister Reymsgen married the painter Isack van Coninxloo (Bredius, Künstler-inventare, p. 1464 and R 19464). Hans van Essen (II) signed the Remonstrant petition of 1628. Maritge Sybrants kept a store where she sold linens (of which a long list was a cited in the inventory). On 19 December 1634, Hans van Nes (Essen), widower of Maritge Sybrants, declared before the Orphan Chamber that the two children Maria, 2 1/2, and Jannetken, 1, left by Jan Govertsz., wijnkoper, whose mother was Gertruyd Boonhoff, were entitled to a house in the Warmoesstraet from the heritage left by Maritge Sybrants (WK 5073/789). On 29 October 1619, Maritgen Sybrants, accompanied by her present husband and guardian Hans van Nes, presented her daughter Geertruyt, aged 7, whose father was Anthoni Boonhoff, goutsmit, before the Orphan Chamber. A weesmeesters kennisse (an obligation of the Orphan Chamber) for 650 f. issued by Hans van Essen, schilder, on behalf of the child, was deposited in the Chamber on 4 August 1626 (WK 5073/789). On 14 March 1625, Hans van Nes bought on the Warmoesstraet, next to the house of Elbert Joosten (who, when Isaack Coninxloo, the brother-in-law of Hans van Essen, bought the lot in R 19464, guaranteed the purchase), for 7,400 f. (Kam, Waar was dat huis in de Warmoesstraat? 1968, 37/2). The present inventory was drawn up after the death of Van Essen's first wife. On 30 November 1634, the estate was valued in total at 15,321 f. (Bredius, op.cit., p. 1463). Hans van Essen remarried with Anna Jans, from Amsterdam, widow of Hans Warnaerts on 20 December 1636 (Bredius, op.cit. p. 1465). He passed his testament on 15 February 1648 and died later in that month (Briels, ibid.)
Notary	Lambert Lamberti
Appraiser	Franchoys Venant and Isaack Isaacksz.
Art Value	386 |d
# of Items	25
Montias1 #	898