Portrait of the Family of Dirck Jacobsz Bas (1569-1637), Burgomaster of Amsterdam, and Margriet Snoeck (1588-1645), Dirck van Santvoort, c. 1634 - c. 1635

Identification

Title(s)

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

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-365

Inscriptions / marks

coat of arms, top left (2x): three mermaids holding two mirrors, two above one, on a blue field
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
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 right, second from left: canting arms of a pike on a blue field
inscription, on the banderoles above the coats of arms, top left: ‘1 Abrah. de Vischer / 2 Magtelda. Bas. / 3 de Vischer / 4 Iacob. Bas.’
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.’

Description

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.

Creation

Artist

painter: Dirck van Santvoort

Dating

c. 1634 - c. 1635

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 134.5 cm × width 248.5 cm

Subject

What

When

1596 - 1637

Where

Amsterdam

Who

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

J. Balguerie-van Rijswijk Bequest, Amsterdam

Acquisition

bequest Feb-1823

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

? 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).}

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

De oude Meesters van de stad Amsterdam : schilderijen tot 1800, p. 245
De 250 rijksten van de Gouden Eeuw : kapitaal, macht, familie en levensstijl, Kees Zandvliet, Mariëlle Hageman, Gijs van der Ham, Clé Lesger, p. 116 (afb.), cat.nr. 56
Kopstukken : Amsterdammers geportretteerd 1600-1800, Jan Baptist Bedaux, Norbert E. Middelkoop, cat.nr. 6
Viewing between the frames : Considering the display of Rembrandt's pendant marriage portraits, Deborah Babbage Iorns, p. 197, afb. 12
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

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