Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen

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Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen
Jan J. Hinlopen in 1666, with his new wife Lucia Wijbrants. Painting by Bartholomeus van der Helst, now in a private collection
Born(1626-05-10)10 May 1626
Amsterdam
Died4 September 1666(1666-09-04) (aged 40)
Amsterdam
Resting placeNieuwe Kerk
NationalityDutch
Occupation(s)Dealing in real estate, cloth, juridical advisor in the city hall
EmployerSelf-employed
Known forArt collecting,
poems by Jan Vos
Spouse(s)1) Leonore Huydecoper of Maarseveen (1657-63)
2) Lucia Wijbrants (1664-66)
ChildrenJacob, Johanna Maria, Sara and Geertrui
ParentJacob J. Hinlopen & Sara de Wael
Relatives(Cata)lijntje (1619), Jacob (1621), Sara (1623), Frans (1628)

Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen (10 May 1626 – 4 September 1666) was a rich

Joan Huydecoper I, is known in art history because of the poems by Jan Vos
reciting the paintings in his house and members of the family. These paintings are spread all over the world, the poems nearly forgotten.

Life

Jan J. Hinlopen was born as the son of the merchant

Hindelopen
, the small town in the North, producing many skippers and sailors.

After coming of age, Jan J. Hinlopen lived with his brother Jacob J. Hinlopen on the Leliegracht at the corner of the Keizersgracht, not far from their parents, who moved to Herengracht. The brothers made money from a cloth business in Warmoesstraat and through building cheap housing in the Jordaan. When their mother died in 1652, the daughter of a Haarlem brewer and burgomaster and herself the owner of a brewery, the Hinlopen brothers inherited a mansion designed by Philips Vingboons, nicely situated in the woods between Baarn, Soest and Hilversum.

Career

Pijnenburg

Wishing to make a career in city politics, Jan enrolled in the

Nieuwe Kerk. He resigned within a few months, when he was appointed as an administrator in the townhall. In the schutterij Jan was promoted lieutenant. On 1 February 1661 Jan was elected as schepen. He may have witnessed the unveiling of Rembrandts' painting The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis
in the town hall, as well as its removal a couple of months later.

On 3 April 1657 Jan J. Hinlopen married Leonore Huydecoper of Maarseveen (1631–1663), the daughter of a rich mayor,

Singel.[3] Jan Vos the local theatre director, gave five performances including accompanying poems for the occasion. Every show consisted of at least thirty to forty scenes portrayed in an allegorical manner, for example on the despairs of Amsterdam during the plague epidemic in the years 1652-1657:

He had Apollo and Themis, then Pallas and House-Pride, enjoying plays. Caution, Cleverness, Politeness and Reasonableness stand at one side of the throne; Charm, Kindness, Pity and Wakefulness at the other...[4]

J. Pierpont Morgan
in 1917

Family

Jan and Leonore had four children:

Jan Hinlopen made distinct notes as to time of birth and date of baptism in the Westerkerk, at what time they were born and on which day they were baptized in the Westerkerk. His diary becomes dramatic when Jan J. Hinlopen lost his youngest daughter developing measles and his wife having a miscarriage after seven months. The next day, on 29 October, around ten in the evening the baby was carried to the church by his servant Jan, accompanied by two other men, most probably the undertakers.[6] On 1 November his wife Leonora died at 5.30 in the morning, having been ill for seven days. His only son Jacob died at Pijnenburg, when his father was not present.

On 6 January 1665 Jan remarried to

Oude Kerk
on 10 September 1666, next to his first wife and their baby.

Hinlopen's collection of paintings

Haman at the feast of Esther
, by Rembrandt (1660). Pushkin Museum, Moscow

After its completion,

Ahasuerus and Haman at the feast of Esther to Jan J. Hinlopen.[8] It is based on the Old Testament story. During a banquet the wife of the Persian King Ahasuerus, the Jew Esther accuses the king's favourite Haman of plotting to destroy her people.[9] This painting may be one of the few paintings by Rembrandt whose provenance can be traced back to the year 1662. In that year Jan Vos published a poetry book in which there were sundry poems based on the paintings of Jan J. Hinlopen.[10]

In his collection were two paintings by

Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen
.

Two paintings by Metsu

One of the two paintings by

Metropolitan Museum is also depicting Hinlopen and his wife is still not clear. Arnold Houbraken, in 1721, recalled the latter painting as the largest and finest work by Metsu he had ever seen.[12]

There is still some confusion among art historians about the history of one of the paintings by Metsu, now in the

Bob Haak describes it as depicting the Geelvinck family.[16]

The family Hinlopen by G. Metsu (1663)

In 1976 Van Eeghen renamed the painting to De familie van burgemeester Gillis Valckenier, and dated it in 1657.[17] This was mainly based on the bird in the painting, which van Eeghen imagined to be a falcon. Irene Groeneweg reasons that the bird, held by the boy, is a Cuban amazon parrot.[18] Another reason to doubt the classification is that, according to the Amsterdam City Archives, burgomaster Gillis Valckenier had six children at the time of the painting's creation.[19]

Judith van Gent discovered that there was a resemblance with Hinlopen's on the works of Bartholomeus van der Helst and the family, depicted by Metsu on the painting in Berlin. Additionally she discovered support for her view in Hinlopens will.[20] Nevertheless, the painting is still and erroneously referred to as: The Family of burgomaster Gillis Valckenier.[21]

The painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, called A Visit to the Nursery, dated 1661, may depict the family Hinlopen. According to Walter Liedtke there is some general resemblance. The scene is set in an imaginary room. The chimney resembles the one in the former Amsterdam townhall, also painted by Pieter de Hooch.[22] A guest is greeted by the new mother and her hat-doffing husband. There is a seascape, a painting of a brawny fisherman on the wall and Persian carpets on the table and the floor.[23] The dog in the painting could be a Bolognese.

The history of this painting is well-known, except for between the years 1666 and 1706.[24] In 1662 Jan Vos published a poem about this painting, belonging to Jan J. Hinlopen.[25] Most of Jan Hinlopen's collection passed to his daughters. In 1680, after the burial of his brother and guardian Jacob J. Hinlopen his paintings were divided in lots and given to his daughters[26] but none of the paintings or painters are mentioned.

See also

Sources

  1. ^ Israel, J.I. (1995) The Dutch Republic, p. 219, 308.
  2. ^ RAU 274-20.
  3. ^ Fock, W. (red.) et al. (2001) Het Nederlandse interieur in beeld 1600-1900, p. 31.
  4. ^ Translated from W. Frijhoff & M. Spies (1999) Bevochten eendracht 1650, p. 456-7. (In Dutch.)
  5. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art The Visit to the Nursery by Gabriel Metsu
  6. ^ RAU 1002-919
  7. ^ Dudok van Heel, S.A.C., (1996) Een opmerkelijke dikzak. Jan Hinlopen door Bartholomeus van der Helst, In: Maandblad Amstelodamum, p. 161-166. (In Dutch.)
  8. ^ Dudok van Heel, S.A.C. (1969) De Rembrandt's in de verzamelingen Hinlopen. In: Maandblad Amstelodamum, pp. 233-237. (In Dutch.)
  9. ^ Tyazehlov, V.N. (2008) The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Room 10, p. 310.
  10. ^ Jan Vos (1726) Alle de gedichten van Jan Vos, pp. 360-3; see also pp. 388, 516, 536. (In Dutch.) Jan Vos also praised the spinning wheel, made of amber, given to Leonora by Frederick William.
  11. ^ "The raising of Lazarus by Jan Lievens (1631)". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
  12. ^ Houbraken 1718-1721, vol. 3, p. 41.
  13. ^ An impression of the painting can be found here Archived 2007-02-05 at the Wayback Machine.
  14. ^ Meyers Konversationlexicon (1885-1892) (In German.) Gelfing should be understood as the family Geelvinck.
  15. ^ Hofstede de Groot, C. (1907) Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke des hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, p. 327.
  16. ^ B. Haak (1984) Hollandse schilders in de Gouden Eeuw, p. 490.
  17. ^ Van Eeghen, I.H. (1976) De familiestukken van Metsu van 1657 en van De Witte van 1678 met vier levensgeschiedenissen (Gillis Valckenier, Nicolaas Listing, Jan Zeeuw en Catharina van de Perre; In: Jrb Amstelodamum, pp. 78-82. (In Dutch.) Valckenier being the Dutch form of falconer.
  18. ^ Groeneweg, I. (1995) Regenten in het zwart: vroom en deftig? In: R. Falkenburg, e.a. (red) Beeld en zelfbeeld in de Nederlandse kunst, 1550-1750, pp. 200-4 (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, dl. 46) (In Dutch.)
  19. ^ Birth certificates of six children from Gillis Valckenier and Jacoba Ranst[permanent dead link]
  20. ^ Van Gent, J. (1998) Portretten van Jan Jacobsz Hinlopen en zijn familie door Gabriël Metsu en Bartholomeus van der Helst. In: Oud Holland 112, pp. 127-138. (In Dutch.) Not. Justus van der Ven, 16 oktober 1663; Getty Provenance Index, N-1706.
  21. ^ Montias, J. M & J. Loughman (2000) Public and Private Spaces: Works of Art in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Houses, p. 113; Zandvliet, K. (2006) De 250 rijksten van de Gouden Eeuw, no. 117, p. 211.
  22. ^ Os, H. van (2002) Beeldenstorm in het Paleis op de Dam, p. 28-33.
  23. ^ Liedtke, W. (2007) Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 463.
  24. ^ Van Gent, p. 134-135, notes 20, 22. See also note 4 and check provenance. The "extraordinary pretty" painting was sold as no. 2 on 18 May 1706, bringing up 435 guilders (for most people in those days a year's salary).
  25. ^ Vos, J. (1662) p. 654.
  26. ^ RAU 67-59. Familiearchief Huydecoper, on 11/7/1679, 12/8/1679 and 2/22/1680.

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