Portrait of the Family of Dirck Jacobsz Bas (1569-1637), Burgomaster of Amsterdam, and Margriet Snoeck (1588-1645)

Portrait of the Family of Dirck Jacobsz Bas (1569-1637), Burgomaster of Amsterdam, and Margriet Snoeck (1588-1645)

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Familieportret van het gezin van Dirck Bas Jacobsz, burgemeester van Amsterdam. In het midden zit Dirck Bas Jacobsz (1569-1637) met zijn tweede echtgenote Margriet Snoeck (1588-1645). De kinderen zijn staand ten voeten uit voorgesteld (van links naar rechts): Machteld Bas (gest. 1681) met haar man Abraham de Visscher (1605-1667) en hun zoontje met een hond, Jacob Bas Dircksz (1609-1656), Agatha Bas (1611-1658), Claes Bas (1616-1635) en Lysbeth Bas (1619-1680). Rechts- en linksboven staan de familiewapens met namen.

• coat of arms, top left (2x): three mermaids holding two mirrors, two above one, on a blue field
• coat of arms, top right, second from left: canting arms of a pike on a blue field
• inscription, on the banderoles above the coats of arms, top right: ‘5 Dirk. Bas / 6 Margriet. Snoek / 7 Agatha. Bas. / 8 Nicolas. Bas. / 9 Elisabet. Bas.’
• coat of arms, top right (4x): divided vertically. 1: a silver eagle with an olive branch in its beak on a blue field. 2, divided horizontally: A, a silver stork on a blue field; B, three blue bars strewn with eleven miniature silver escutcheons, alternating with three red bars
• coat of arms, top left (2x): divided vertically. 1: a silver eagle with an olive branch in its beak on a blue field. 2, divided horizontally: A, a silver stork on a blue field; B, three blue bars strewn with eleven miniature silver escutcheons, alternating with three red bars
• inscription, on the banderoles above the coats of arms, top left: ‘1 Abrah. de Vischer / 2 Magtelda. Bas. / 3 de Vischer / 4 Iacob. Bas.’

painter: Dirck van Santvoort

c. 1634 - c. 1635

oil on canvas

support: height 134.5 cm x width 248.5 cm

1596 - 1637

J. Balguerie-van Rijswijk Bequest, Amsterdam

bequest 1823-02

Public domain

? Commissioned by or for Dirck Jacobsz Bas (1569-1637) and Margriet Snoeck (1588-1645), Amsterdam; ? their daughter, Machtelt Bas (?-1681), Amsterdam; ? by descent to her daughter, Theodora de Visscher (1641-1722), Amsterdam, or the latter’s son, Theodore (Dirck) Rijswijck (1668-1729), Amsterdam; ? his daughter, Theodora Rijswijck (1695-1752), Amsterdam; ? her husband, Pierre Balguerie (1679-1759), Amsterdam; ? his son, Daniel Balguerie (1732-1788), Amsterdam; ? his wife, Johanna Balguerie, née Van Rijswijk (1750-1823), Amsterdam; by whom bequeathed to the museum, with 22 other portraits, 1823{NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 11, no. 51 (1 March 1823); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 36, pp. 140-41 (30 March 1823); NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 11, nos. 56 (17 April 1823), 57 (18 April 1823); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 36, p. 143 (8 May 1823).}
Or:
? Commissioned by or for Dirck Jacobsz Bas (1569-1637), Amsterdam; ? his daughter, Machtelt Bas (?-1681), Amsterdam; ? by descent to her daughter, Theodora de Visscher (1641-1722), Amsterdam; ? her son, Jan (Jean) Rijswijck (1678-1756), Amsterdam; ? his daughter, Johanna Rijswijck (1723-?), Amsterdam; her daughter, Johanna Balguerie, née Van Rijswijk (1750-1823); by whom bequeathed to the museum, with 22 other portraits, 1823{NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 11, no. 51 (1 March 1823); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 36, pp. 140-41 (30 March 1823); NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 11, nos. 56 (17 April 1823), 57 (18 April 1823); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 36, p. 143 (8 May 1823).}

• A. Jensen Adams, Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland, Portraiture and the Production of Community, New York 2009, p. 116, fig. 30
• Deborah Babbage Iorns, Viewing between the frames : Considering the display of Rembrandt's pendant marriage portraits, uit: Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek = Netherlandish yearbook for history of art, 65, 2015, pagina 177-201 - p. 197, afb. 12

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